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Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas / ACT IV
« on: September 12, 2007, 01:54:00 am »
Actullay I can deal with monochrome sprites. It makes things a deal easier and allows the game to move faster.
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| QUOTE (Halifax @ 4 Sep, 2007, 13:36) |
| @calc84maniac: I understand that, but what you said was a little flawed. JR has a 25% chance of being faster literally. Which I don't really know if you meant literally though by your post. Anyways this is why the decision is up to the programmer. Really there is no sense in basing the speed of your routine off of that unless you know that it is more likely to be false which is most definitely not applicable in a compiler! Also just so you know that logic applies to any command supporting conditionals. @DJ_Omnimaga: No the TI-89t can have C++ if some builds the compiler. Any system can have C or C++ if some builds the compiler. But the problem is no one wants to build the compiler because frankly parsing C++ sucks and is very very hard. |
I can't find the link now but I remember Kevin Kofler saying that programming for the 89T in C++ is just not feasible. The amount of header space that a c++ program needs it to much. A simple command such as cout << "Hello World" would be in the kilobytes range. Which compared to the printf("Hello World") or better yet the Drawstr (which use the calculators built in features), which compiles to just bytes. Is just way to big. Making compiler wouldn't be terribly difficult some just has to make the linking library's. Tigcc's compiler isn't made from scratch its derived from GCC. Since most people when they make games for the 89 just use the library functions. Adding the extra features that c++ gives (and the extra compile size), Is just out the question.
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