| ▲ | bsimpson 4 hours ago | |
If you'd prefer to watch a video, the author was interviewed on YouTube 5y ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o I thought that video included one of my favorite programming legends, and apparently a bunch of people on Reddit remembered that too. Instead, it was published on Gamasutra about a "late 90s PC title." Still very worth the quick read: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/dirty-coding-trick... | ||
| ▲ | djmips an hour ago | parent [-] | |
We used to do that back in the eighties. We likened it to working out with weights or saving for a rainy day. Keeping some memory preallocated so that when you really needed it during the final push, you'd have some on hand. | ||