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Omen
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Posted: 26th Jun 2011 23:02 Edited at: 26th Jun 2011 23:08
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Very interesting talk - well worth listening to the whole thing:

"How to program independent games" to the UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Undergraduate Association by the author of Braid:

http://the-witness.net/news/?p=1004

Favorite quote: Data structure are about memory or speed optimization. They are not about life optimization.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 27th Jun 2011 00:15
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That's great! I'm borrowing a book from my dad called "C++ Coding Standards", and it kinda says "Most importantly, avoid premature optimization because it only obfuscates code, however avoid premature pessimization". It didn't take that as far as to say that applies to data structures, but that's certainly a great view if you're worrying about how practical it is to write the code, as well as how fast it is, and how little memory it uses.


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