Re: [Algorithms] General purpose task parallel threading approach

[Gregory J. <gj...@da...>]

Sebastian

 

First, what attitude? I am merely pointing out a flaw in your arguments.

 

Second, the components you write are *not* as general as possible - that
would create a useless system, as I (and others) have already pointed out.
You write components that are coded to do something specific, and because
they are restricted to doing something specific, when you need something
that does that specific something in the future, you can reuse that
component. That is what "reuse" means. 

 

You should know this, yet you continue to harp on this "general" theme
anytime anyone tries to explain to you what should be obvious about your use
of this term. One can only assume, from your responses and your behavior in
this topic, that you are simply being argumentative at this point.


Greg

 

From: Sebastian Sylvan [mailto:seb...@gm...] 
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:54 AM
To: Game Development Algorithms
Subject: Re: [Algorithms] General purpose task parallel threading approach

 

 

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Gregory Junker <gj...@da...> wrote:

Here's something you keep ignoring though, Sebastian - despite your fervent
belief otherwise, and the efforts of several rather enlightened individuals
thus far to educate you otherwise: there is no "Grand Unified Theory of
Computing"; no "One Size Fits All" approach that works optimally in all
cases. We don't write "general" code. In every single software system
implemented in the history of computing, it has been implemented to solve a
specific problem.

 

Oh come on!

 

1) Be professional. There's really no need for this attitude.

2) I've never claimed anything remotely close to what you say, I'm merely
pointing out the restrictions of one specific approach (and as I've said,
I'm using this approach myself right now!).

3) Software is quite often about trying to write components that are as
general as possible. It's called code-reuse and is usually thought of as a
good thing.

 

 

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