libtcod
.NET Runtime
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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libtcod
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Sharing Saturday #459
libtcod | GitHub | Issues | Forum | Changelog | Documentation | Template
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Game screen: write terminal emulator or use libtcod?
Libtcod itself uses SDL2. It maps tile glyphs to a texture atlas and maps Unicode codepoints to tile positions. Then it has another data structure called a console which has the background color, foreground color, and codepoint for each tile on that console. It then uses SDL_RenderGeometry to quickly render the background and colored glyphs to an SDL texture, skipping unchanged tiles as an optimization, then renders that texture to the window. The C99 source is here: renderer_sdl2.h renderer_sdl2.c, a C++ version would surely look better.
- Sharing Saturday #440
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what minor tech projects do you absolutely adore?
libtcod has always been a favorite of mine. Does a lot of things to zero fanfare outside the indie roguelike scene.
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Sharing Saturday #427
I've ended up recovering the old 1.3.2 to 1.5.0 builds of libtcod. You can find them on the GitHub releases page. Most of, maybe all of the other places which had these builds are down, but thankfully Jice still had copies of these builds.
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RoguelikeDev Does The Complete Roguelike Tutorial - Week 3
FoV is a port from C -> Java of the algorithm found here
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Sharing Saturday #413
libtcod | GitHub | Issues | Forum | Changelog | Documentation | Template
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SRiC ("Simple" Roguelike in C) has stairs now, and multiple floors!
Hey man, I don't wanna piss in your cherrios if you're intentionally doing it all the hard way, but you know about tcod right? https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/
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libtcod roguelike C tutorial?
Browsing the repo, looks like it has a full C only API, https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/blob/master/src/libtcod/libtcod.h
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The 7DRL Challenge 2022 is announced! Create a complete roguelike game in 7 days.
libtcod support for terminals is in progress at least for ANSI true colour, and I have a minimal compatibility layer for UNIX only.
.NET Runtime
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Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby
It's an interesting "time is a circle" problem given that a century only has 100 years and then we loop around again. 2-digit years is convenient for people in many situations but they are very lossy, and horrible for machines.
It reminds me of this breaking change to .Net from last year.[1][2] Maybe AA just needs to update .Net which would pad them out until the 2050's when someone born in the 1950s would be having...exactly the same problem in the article. (It is configurable now so you could just keep pushing it each decade, until it wraps again).
Or they could use 4-digit years.
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/75148
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The software industry rapidly convergng on 3 languages: Go, Rust, and JavaScript
These can also be passed as arguments to `dotnet publish` if necessary.
Reference:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
- https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/coreclr/nati...
- https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/5b4e770daa190ce69f402... (full list of recognized keys for IlcInstructionSet)
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The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword
Yes, that is true. I'm not sure about JVM implementation details but the reason the comment says "virtual and interface" calls is to outline the difference. Virtual calls in .NET are sufficiently close[0] to virtual calls in C++. Interface calls, however, are coded differently[1].
Also you are correct - virtual calls are not terribly expensive, but they encroach on ever limited* CPU resources like indirect jump and load predictors and, as noted in parent comments, block inlining, which is highly undesirable for small and frequently called methods, particularly when they are in a loop.
* through great effort of our industry to take back whatever performance wins each generation brings with even more abstractions that fail to improve our productivity
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/4895a06c/src/vm/amd64...
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core... (mind you, the text was initially written 18 ago, wow)
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Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced
If you care about portable SIMD and performance, you may want to save yourself trouble and skip to C# instead, it also has an extensive guide to using it: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/69110bfdcf5590db1d32c...
CoreLib and many new libraries are using it heavily to match performance of manually intensified C++ code.
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Locally test and validate your Renovate configuration files
DEBUG: packageFiles with updates (repository=local) "config": { "nuget": [ { "deps": [ { "datasource": "nuget", "depType": "nuget", "depName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "currentValue": "7.0.0", "updates": [ { "bucket": "non-major", "newVersion": "7.0.1", "newValue": "7.0.1", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-02-14T13:21:52.713Z", "newMajor": 7, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "patch", "branchName": "renovate/dotnet-monorepo" }, { "bucket": "major", "newVersion": "8.0.0", "newValue": "8.0.0", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-11-14T13:23:17.653Z", "newMajor": 8, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "major", "branchName": "renovate/major-dotnet-monorepo" } ], "packageName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "versioning": "nuget", "warnings": [], "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/dotnet/runtime", "registryUrl": "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json", "homepage": "https://dot.net/", "currentVersion": "7.0.0", "isSingleVersion": true, "fixedVersion": "7.0.0" } ], "packageFile": "RenovateDemo.csproj" } ] }
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Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/59591
Support zstd Content-Encoding:
- Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)
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Why choose async/await over threads?
We might not be that far away already. There is this issue[1] on Github, where Microsoft and the community discuss some significant changes.
There is still a lot of questions unanswered, but initial tests look promising.
Ref: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94620
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Redis License Changed
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet exists for source build that stitches together SDK, Roslyn, runtime and other dependencies. A lot of them can be built and used individually, which is what contributors usually do. For example, you can clone and build https://github.com/dotnet/runtime and use the produced artifacts to execute .NET assemblies or build .NET binaries.
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Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
Yeah, it kind of is. There are quite a few of experiments that are conducted to see if they show promise in the prototype form and then are taken further for proper integration if they do.
Unfortunately, object stack allocation was not one of them even though DOTNET_JitObjectStackAllocation configuration knob exists today, enabling it makes zero impact as it almost never kicks in. By the end of the experiment[0], it was concluded that before investing effort in this kind of feature becomes profitable given how a lot of C# code is written, there are many other lower hanging fruits.
To contrast this, in continuation to green threads experiment, a runtime handled tasks experiment[1] which moves async state machine handling from IL emitted by Roslyn to special-cased methods and then handling purely in runtime code has been a massive success and is now being worked on to be integrated in one of the future version of .NET (hopefully 10?)
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/11192
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/blob/feature/async2-exp...
What are some alternatives?
python-tcod - A high-performance Python port of libtcod. Includes the libtcodpy module for backwards compatibility with older projects.
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
bracket-lib - The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.
actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.
BrogueCE - Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
WASI - WebAssembly System Interface
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
CoreCLR - CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes.
C++ Format - A modern formatting library
vgpu_unlock - Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs.