FG_Regulus

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by FG_Regulus 11y ago
No one said AMD is virtuous. However they work hard to produce and mantain open standards that benefit everyone. The only other GPU producer is anti-competitive and anti-customer, so obviously we'll say "buy from AMD, they're
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by FG_Regulus 11y ago
"Slower and more expensive". Yes, $240 r9 290s all the time xs down to $260 at times. The former is very near the 970 and the latter overcomes in many games. Both are preferred at 1440+. A $320 970 is definitely worth it. You may
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by FG_Regulus 11y ago
I'm not an evangelical snob, I can forgive transgressons obviously. But we aren't talking about a company that doesn't only attack open standards. This isn't even really a moral argument anymore. If you buy Nvidia you
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by FG_Regulus 11y ago
First of all, AMD does release drivers and fix issues. It takes a couple weeks but it happens. And if you look at benchmarks the r9 290 still trades blows with the 970, there's no huge disparity like Nvidia wants you to believe and you
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by FG_Regulus 12y ago
I once got a Chem II lab manual, $50. And let me tell you, this was a real piece of work. The entire thing, covers and all, were printed on normal paper. It was (barely) held together by a plastic spiral ring. I get in the first class, lab
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by FG_Regulus 12y ago
Woah, woah, woah. So now we should be happy to have $30k in debt, even after working $600/week jobs for 4 months every year to pay it off? And he's the vast minority that has such an opportunity!
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by FG_Regulus 12y ago
White kid from the lower middle-class. 4.7 high school with all honors and graduating with an AA. Had to start almsot completely over classes-wise because of the structure of the CS degree so what should have been 3 years is now 4 years at
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by FG_Regulus 12y ago
Wow - my degree lands me a beautiful $8k every year (2 semesters). But it gets better. I thought about improving myself in high school by going into early college. A free AA degree and at the same time as my HS diploma? Hell yeah! They didn
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by FG_Regulus 13y ago
> Similar performance characteristics (or better) than Go. Nope. It's without a doubt 100% better. The GC is brilliant and realtime with deterministic properties. The community has outperformed C++ in ray tracers and games, Ada in
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by FG_Regulus 13y ago
What in the HELL are you talking about? The thread local GC won't even produce anything on the shared heap - it's thread local. Shared memory is manual memory only - Just like C, C++, Ada, and every other manual memory management
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by FG_Regulus 13y ago
Yes it is. Threads don't share a GC - there's no implicit sharedness. Memory is copied between threads. And of course, it doesn't prevent manual management of shared memory (just not GCd) so you CAN use locks to do so. Just l
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by FG_Regulus 13y ago
And adding onto the other reply - Nimrod's GC has a realtime mode where you can specify when to run, and the maximum time. I made a (small) game in Nimrod and called the GC every frame for the remaining time (it can be used like a bloc