mirrorbird (01:40:40)
if half the memory is fucking empty it is actually efficient to pre-allocate. but you try telling an autist.

mirrorbird (01:40:19)
haha, "reserving the memory to use all of it on demand" -- see also: people asking why SQL Server was eating 90% of memory. is something wrong? "NOT YET". you run other stuff, it will back down

mirrorbird (01:39:04)
'make...generate' is a lot of hand-waving. do we mean compile?

Agemixer (01:38:47)
afaik thete's no such compiler yet (unless we, say, chatgpt style but it's included in your program) Ehm

Agemixer (01:36:24)
so the generic (handmade) code would be just easy and small, the code generator would actually produce code reserving the memory to use all of it "on demand" even

Agemixer (01:33:57)
in fact if you were a damn good programmer, you can make it the machine generate the required optimized code for different situations, out of a generic algo feed to that little "AI"

mirrorbird (01:30:45)
hahahaha. a future discipline will bring these things together, i'll call it --- "computer science"

mirrorbird (01:30:18)
it's funny because functional nerds do it to get to the MATHEMATICAL TRUTH but cpu nerds do it to save 3 T-states

Agemixer (01:29:51)
sorry about that mir, my techs would be not visible for a casual tracker composer but that's what will be included innit technically sorry confusing terminology

mirrorbird (01:29:36)
this Galaxians man is surely unrolling his draw routine for every sprite to avoid having to actually *follow a pointer* to get graphics

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