alt Hacker NewsGame development is STILL a highly underrated field. Plenty of advancements/optimizations (both in software/hardware) can be directly traced back to game development. Hopefully, with RAM prices shooting up the way it is, we go back to keeping optimizations front and center and reduce all the bloat that has accumulated industry wide.
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hinkley • today at 9:00 AM
A number of my tricks are stolen from game devs and applied to boring software. Most notably, resource budgets for each task. You can’t make a whole system fast if you’re spending 20% of your reasonable execution time on one moderately useful aspect of the overall operation.
I think one could even say gaming as a sector single handedly move most of the personal computing platform forward since 80s and 90s. Before that it was probably Military and cooperate. From DOS era, overclocking CPU to push benchmarks, DOOM, 3D Graphics API from 3DFx Glide to Direct X. Faster HDD for faster Gaming Load times. And for 10 - 15 years it was gaming that carried CUDA forward.