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From Python to Lua

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on June 25, 2011

(This blog was originaly posted at #AltDevBlogADay) All game developers, sooner or later, learn to appreciate scripting languages. That magical thing that allows for letting others do your job, better scaling of the team, strengthening the game code/engine separation, sandboxing, faster prototyping of ideas, fault isolation, easy parametrization, etc. Every game has to be somehow […]

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Optimizing script language performance with custom memory allocators

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on November 29, 2010November 29, 2010

The last weekend I did some exploration on the script language execution performance. Specifically on the memory allocation side of things, and I would like to share my findings. Script languages and memory usage As you probably know script languages (most of them at least, like Python, Lua, etc) have the tendency to make a huge […]

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Having both Mac OSX and iPhone targets in XCODE

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 27, 2010

I have a library (guess what that is!) for use in the iPhone. For the library I have an XCode project with two targets. One for the emulator and one for the actual device. Nothing wild as you can see. However the joy came when I desided to also use the library in OSX. As […]

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Python Easter Egg

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 19, 2008

Since Easter is coming, here is an easter egg for you : If you type from __future__ import braces in Python.. You get : SyntaxError: not a chance 😀 😀 😀

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Ray Tracing into a Sparse Voxel Octree

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 22, 2008

And just when you thought you were through with tracing things all over the place… John Carmack strikes back with a mortal blow with something about ray tracing into a sparse voxel octree!! The article doesn’t really say much (nothing actually) about the algorithm, and this is where the fun/fuss starts! I can’t wait to […]

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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 6, 2008February 6, 2008

According to this press release, nVidia will acquire Ageia Technologies. Yeap! The well known physics software and hardware vendor. In my mind this means that the future nVidia based accelerators will support physics acceleration, too. It will basically mean the death of the PhysX processor, since the GPU can do that easily with no extra […]

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Software Engineering Proverbs

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 6, 2007October 6, 2007

Must read.. 🙂 One I really liked : Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: QA testers don’t change anything. They just report that it’s dark.

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My Βabbler Coldfusion

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 28, 2007September 27, 2007

If you where a compiler and you would like to express yourself about an index that was mistakenly out of bounds what would you say? I would say something like this : – “Line 342 : Index out of bounds” Read on to find out what Coldfusion would say!!!

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Double Check Your EXCEL

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on September 27, 2007September 27, 2007

Do you trust Microsoft Excel to do your financial plans? Do you count on it for business matters? Do you even use it as a calculator? Think again… since Excel can’t even multiply correctly!! I wonder how they accomplished such a thing! What kind of COM, CORBA and VB should you be calling for a […]

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Getting Started Again… True Megatexture

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 28, 2007

Greetings everybody! It been a long time since this blog was updated, I know! Well I was kind of busy lately. Looking for a job, finding a job, then doing the job and finally trying to get some free time for summer vacation and free time projects. You know that getting a new job always […]