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Comment on I am an idiot. by bbarrett

bbarrett — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:58:34 +0000

Thanks for the comment. In my case, it was the references that really killed me. I have a habit of declaring references to make code easier to read, so rather than write (*it)->foo() everywhere I will write “Bar &bar = *it; bar.foo();”. Obviously it depends on the complexity of the code involved.

I actually haven’t moved away from my fixed stack size yet, partially because I haven’t really updated the project in the last few months and partially because the system stack has an upper limit anyway, and generally only runaway recursion or some heavy stack allocation will ever breach it. I don’t feel quite so bad about my “hack” as I did when I wrote that =)

Comment on I am an idiot. by fingerprint211b

fingerprint211b — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:04:47 +0000

Hi. I’ve actually had the same problem a few days ago, it’s a real bastard, especially if you use G++ like I did and get absolutely no information on what’s going on.
Anyway, since all I needed was iterating through the vector (and calling a specific method), instead of using iterators, I used the good old for loop and random access. Since I know that an object in the vector can only remove itself (not other objects), this is practically bulletproof. Either that or I’m missing something. The vector can reallocate itself all it wants, indexes stay the same.

Comment on One step forward, X steps backward. by bbarrett

bbarrett — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:39:01 +0000

Thanks! It’s been neglected of late… but I hope I will soon restart work on it.

Comment on One step forward, X steps backward. by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:04:56 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Nesting Quotes by bbarrett

bbarrett — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:00:12 +0000

Well, that was sort of what I had planned. Not an article, but rather a in-depth analysis of my current implementation, what I’m happy with and what I am not, etc.

I’ve hit a block now. I have everything looking like its working, but then it won’t. Some odd problems with scopes and variables, possibly related with how my macro hack is working (or… not working). My energy that got the project off the ground is draining trying to track down this bug, especially because I think I have some kind of throat problem or something, and between work (I work in a customer support center for a mobile phone network in Ireland, fun with the throat thing) and that the energy is a bit low at the moment. However, I am finishing up work in a week, so I should have more time then to dive into this project. I have made progress, but I’m close enough that I’ve been putting off writing an update until I’m over this hurdle.

But thank you for your comment anyway, nice to know someone reads.

Comment on Nesting Quotes by SteveW

SteveW — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:25:11 +0000

Wow! I’ve been majorly neglecting reading journal over the last month, and you’ve been tinkering away at this bombshell for the last few weeks.

I’m really impressed at how far you’ve managed to get in such a short period of time. I’ve played around with the same thing before (albeit Scheme rather than Lisp), but it didn’t get as far as your experiment here. Perhaps you should consider rolling out some articles on the topic!

Comment on It has been a while… by bbarrett

bbarrett — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:07:02 +0000

Thats a deal!

I have actually made some more progress, but not enough to write another entry. I’ll see how I get on tonight…

Comment on It has been a while… by Aaghaaz Madan

Aaghaaz Madan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:36:13 +0000

When you get around to functions, be sure to blog about it.

Comment on softness is necessary by bbarrett

bbarrett — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:46:05 +0000

I have to say, those techniques look really interesting (if I am remembering them correctly). I would consider it, perhaps during the summer when I have more time (see my earlier entry, “busy, busy, busy”, for reasons why I might not have any of that time stuff for a little while).

Comment on softness is necessary by hopedagger

hopedagger — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:54:45 +0000

Do you have future plans for adding any global illumination techniques, such as radiosity? I’ve been really interested in the topic, but the implementation of such things looks really time consuming.