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0 pointsbinarymidget8y ago0 comments

"...or graphics code you are constantly told "just express what you want to express directly, and the system is smart enough to do things as efficiently as possible"."

Who is saying that? I've worked in video games for 18 years and never heard that. In fact, anyone who said that would get puzzled and suspicious looks. We generally use a very C-like variant of C++.

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adrianratnapala8y ago

Your comment sounds accurate from what little I know of the game community. But the reason it is fun to read about game programing is precisely because you guys are so willing to dive into the detail.

I was responding to a comment about Cairo graphics, which I assume is not much used in games. The kind of graphics I was thinking about is things like Cairo, Windows WPF, the Web.

That said: once upon a long time, OpenGL was supposed to be achieve efficiency by being high level so that the rendering stack could optimise your drawing better than you could. That idea didn't work so well and modern OpenGL seems to take the opposite approach.

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adrianratnapala8y ago

I was responding to a comment about Cairo graphics, which I assume is not much used in games. The kind of graphics I was thinking about is things like Cairo, Windows WPF, the Web.

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