Re: [Algorithms] Scalability costs

[Jamie F. <j.f...@re...>]

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> It does happen when the engine has some nice generalities to it. Even if
> none of the actual code get shared (which is the usual case, admittedly),
> the people involved usualy just rewrite what they had before, maybe with a
> few neat tricks they've learned in the meantime. You can rewrite something
> very quickly if you've done it once and solved all the hard problems. It's
> that sort of "reuse" I meant, rather than the actual code itself.

Plenty of ideas live past the original code, that's true :)

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>
> [snip]
> > Algorithms that scale well are a good thing... he says,
> > frantically trying to
> > convince himself the thread's not OT.... :)
>
> I don't think it's even close to OT - this is a games algorithms list, and
> LoD algorithms are amongst the trickiest and most varied algorithms out
> there.

True, this just seems peripheral to the algorithms themselves :)

Jamie