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Matt Bond7-Oct-20 3:44
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JP Reyes7-Oct-20 8:38
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Ah the good ol' times. Not so long ago I used a C++ 2003 compliant (or at least '98) compiler from Codewarrior to build games on a Nintendo DS, with only 4MB of ram. Unlike what the C++ core pushes you do to do, the use of the standard library was not an option if you wanted to keep within speed and memory tolerance. Templates were all but forbidden (waste of clock cycles they would say). By and far we mostly coded as if it were C and ARM32 assembler only. We did use objects but only for the advantages objects in C would offer (generic programming, the boost library and all the present day fanciness was unheard of). We built our own everything (anything GPL'd was strictly forbidden by Nintendo).

Yet I don't see why I would ever abandon such practices, for videogames. Security (outside of the usual network encryptions) is still highly overrated in these "electronic toys" (the saying goes "if they can hack it to enhance their fun, more power to them")

Bygone days
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