Comments on: Next IC² version will come as…

By: Alblaka

Alblaka — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:24:19 +0000

BC3

By: bbqroast

bbqroast — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:58:56 +0000

Ironically since the adventure update I don’t explore. At all. Before it I found wonderful things (a giant floating forested continent for example) now I just find flat biomes and ugly mountains.
They are making the biggest mistake:
Making things realistic.

By: bbqroast

bbqroast — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:57:04 +0000

Ironically Infiminer (an inspiration for Minecraft) was ended because the owner released obfuscated code (and felt that this doomed his entire project).

By: bbqroast

bbqroast — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:52:01 +0000

Notice something?
Every good mod has a 2 on the end. IC2 BC2 RP2 are just some examples.
I think Notch should follow suite, completely recoding Minecraft. The result would probably be really, really good.

By: bbqroast

bbqroast — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:25:06 +0000

Hire someone to make them recode every thing in a completely different way at least twice before releasing it…
Win

By: Slizyboy

Slizyboy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:55:49 +0000

Theoretically multiply x-fold. However, if you want to multithread *and* have it still function correctly without corruption, in reality you’d see it not get nearly close to linear in terms of speedup. Synchronization is costly overhead that just sucks when you’re not contending on shared resources, and when there is contention you’re basically no better than singlethreaded. Plus, I would *not* want to be the guy in charge of re-writing MC to be multithreaded.

By: Someguy

Someguy — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:42:11 +0000

Also re-“continue”.

It’s not a goto. It’s a “skip to next iteration of loop”. The label is merely a way to indicate which loop is being skipped when two or more loops are nested. Just like “break” is also not a goto but an “exit the loop”. If you’re in a loop within a loop, you specify how far out you’re exiting. The only other way to do this is via control variables.

Break and continue are a normal and everyday of structured programming. Not gotos.

By: Someguy

Someguy — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:54:22 +0000

Don’t confuse “low level” with a “low” style or something that is to be frowned upon. It’s not part of a social status system or something.

There’s nothing inefficient about “gotos”. They’re easy to misuse and introduce fatal bugs and that’s why they’re disliked and avoided in the current style of programming, but in processor terms they’re one of the most basic and fast opcodes that can be used, and are VERY common in assembly code. (whether this applies to java or not is irrelevant to whether “gotos” are “low” and “frowned upon”).

I read somewhere that you said that basically IC2 was where you learned java (or programming?)? Because this is common developer knowledge.

By: Alblaka

Alblaka — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:02:04 +0000

You can exspect most simple-mods to not even know of this developement and continue/live-up with a current version.
However, if IC decides to go this route, theres a viable chance BC and RP will follow. And if those do, most of the MCForge side of life will follow. Which is all you need, i hope.

By: Maeyanie

Maeyanie — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:17:04 +0000

Only problem would be getting all the major mods to stick to the same version. Please don’t make us choose between IC2 and the world… unlike most mods it would actually be a tough choice. 🙂