Narishma

> I gotta follow all my local laws while I’m using it. (!) (Really? Whereever I live?) Where I live, a lot of those rules conflict with local law.

You obviously didn't read the article. That's a completely different issue.

As far as I understand, Rakudo is a compiler, not an interpreter. It compiles perl 6 source files into bytecode that is executed by a VM.

Only if the application supports it.

Sony has nothing to do with this. It's the game developers who use the engine.

A lot of people complained when they removed those comical ragdolls in Dark Souls 2, so they added them back in Bloodborne.

That looks to be an 8-bit CPU. It has an 8-bit accumulator and instructions are encoded in 8-bits. The only 4-bit thing in there is the address space, but even that is really 2*4-bits.

None that I know of. The Ogre3d renderer has moved from an OOP to a data oriented design in their newer versions, so maybe you can look at that.

I don't think it's a bad example. I remember John Carmack saying Doom 3 was their first C++ project and they weren't very familiar with the language and did some poor decisions on that.

A lot of AAA games are built that way.

OpenCL and other GPU implementations of codecs are not as efficient in terms of power consumption as dedicated hardware.

You may need a smartphone, though that's debatable, but you don't need a high-end expensive one. And those wont't have paper specs anywhere near PS4-level anytime soon.

3 years from now, the PS4 will be 5 years old and much cheaper than a high-end smartphone.

Consoles do use SoCs, mainly because they're cheaper than discrete processors. At least the current ones do. They're just not mobile SoCs.

You mean Thumb-2?

How would you read it back?

I don't see a problem with remasters if they're done right (The Last of Us and GTA 5 on PS4 are a couple such ones that comes to mind). Unfortunately, a lot of the time they're just han…

> cache coherency Cache locality. Cache coherency is something different.

It's just a personal preference. I don't think being a developer has anything to do with it.

Apple doesn't use ARM's processor designs. They just license the ISA and design their own CPUs.

Yes.

> I had only like one game which I never really played but instead I spent hours writing mini games and setting up communication between the PSP and a PC, using it as remote control and whatnot. An…

The latest revisions of PCem can run BeOs I think.

No, if you don't return anything from main, return 0 is added for you by the compiler, at least in C++ and recent versions of C.

The blob runs on a different processor (the GPU), not inside OpenBSD.

It's called Vulkan, not OpenGL Vulkan. It's not related to OpenGL, other than being made by the Khronos group.

I don't think MIPS exists anymore. They were bought a few years back by Imagination (the makers of PowerVR GPUs used in mobile devices).

What do you mean by open and what does that have to do with patents?

Since this is based on AMD's GCN architecture, aren't there any patent issues?