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// ************** Instructions for connecting to the LiveCoding chatrooms from a 3rd party application. ****************

Step 1a (Ubuntu/ any OS with aptitude (aka apt-get)) :
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rsrchboy/profanity && sudo apt-get update
apt-get install profanity
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Step 1b (OSX w/ homebrew):
$ brew install profanity
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LearnCocos2D

For background and further references see: Entity Component Systems on Wikipedia

ECS by Scott Bilas (GDC 2002)

Entity->Components->Update

• entity = class: no logic + no data OR at most small set of frequently used data (ie position)
• component = class: logic + data

foreach entity in allEntities do
    foreach component in entity.components do

davidfowl

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jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD