Denis_K

Denis joined Sep 6, 2009

C programmer, mapper.

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The point is that there is a mental cost to "globalness" that seems largely unexamined for code, rather than data.

21hours 22mins ago

@curtclifton yeah, that is sort of my point -- the "globalness" of function availability isn't really questioned even when discussing purity

21hours 27mins ago

All of the data in a modern game could be expressed as gigs of global referenced pure functions, but it wouldn’t be “good”. Why?

21hours 36mins ago

I wish I could quantify the nagging sense that there are hazards related to the sprawl of an execution path, even referentially transparent.

22hours 2mins ago

@JulianDarius I started writing something longer on the social-political aspects that both you and Colin have commented on, but no time...

May 16 2013, 12:36pm

Michael Abrash leads his latest article with an email from me: T.co

May 16 2013, 12:19pm

I commented on a very very long article about Iron Man 3: T.co

May 16 2013, 11:04am

@tom_dl you could do it, but it wouldn't be visually competitive with rasterization today

May 15 2013, 2:30pm

@_Kaven_ either one is a fine choice. C# may be a slightly better language, but on less platforms.

May 15 2013, 11:11am

We make compromises in the name of performance all the time, then fail to reexamine them after an order of magnitude increase in capability.

May 15 2013, 11:00am

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