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Thanks for your reply. I had not really thought about the disk and threading. Can I ask a few foll…
For each file to process you read it fully into memory (C stdio API is perfectly fine for that), d…
I have a lot of big binary files (usually 300-400 MB). The file format has changed slightly and I …
That's a good idea, too, but it won't work for beta-testers in the future. Thanks for sharing that…
Have your build script delete all temp_*.dll files - whichever it can. If it cannot then meh, leav…
Good idea, too, but I think I prefer bumping the number because your idea requires deleting the dl…
To run multiple instances I would create string based on process id - something like temp_817238.d…
That could work. Unload, try to copy to temp1.dll, else try to copy to temp2.dll, and load again. …
If it's not an issue for you and you have a way to differentiate between the different instances, …
Why don't you just copy to Temp1.dll and Temp2.dll If you don't know if you are 1 or 2 either you …
Adamarla —
Yes, the glViewport and glScissor was the problem! I have now set it to: With that, all the lighti…
How would I adapt the hot reloading technique used in HmH to an online game where I want to be abl…
Game developers should be able to write code, draw art and compose music. Most of the time a singl…
Thanks, Dawoodoz! That gives me plenty more to research and think through.
Right, text shaping is another issue. I'm just saying that if you break two UTF-16 chars that belo…
I don't know for sure, but my assumption is it will do memory accesses. Though maybe that is now d…
matwhill —
I think some style features are pretty much arbitrary in terms of readability - i.e. nobody has pr…
cella —
Game developers should be able to write code, draw art and compose music. Is there a study plan or…
Question #1. Does the processor have to do memory accesses for every instruction that looks like a…
I use everything lower case with underscore to separate words. Add _t to type definitions (struct,…
If I read the code correctly (it has been a while since I watched those episodes), the display of …
Miles —
Even if you're treating each 32-bit codepoint as a single character, it's still partly wrong (but …
cella —
What is a good coding style? Of course code style doesn't make a program performant, but what is o…
I agree than UTF-16 was a mistake, but my point was that .NET uses one element per character, whic…
Dawoodoz —
Unless you are reading the manual for a specific compiler, char is a signed or unsigned integer of…
Adamarla —
I am behind with the series and have reached day 394. On my machine, the day 394 code does not run…
std::string does not have the same character size and behaviour on each platform, which will be me…
Dawoodoz —
std::string does not have the same character size and behavior on each platform, which will be mes…
cella —
I've always felt stupid when reading about the standard library. I thought the implementations wer…
Miles —
There are good reasons to avoid certain portions of the standard library. Most of the C++ standard…