Entries from November 2005

No alarms and no pretty garden

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 18, 2005 at 1:02pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Cracked eggs, dead birds… I can’t help the feeling, I could break through the ceiling blame it on the satellite that beams me home

And it wears me out…

he talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge with no alarms and no surprises You broke another mirror, you’re turning into something you are not

And it wears you out…

I want you […]

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Exceptions and execution speed

Comments   8   Date Arrow  November 12, 2005 at 1:24am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

This post was triggered by a comment by Alex Hunsley on the Multithreaded Game Scripting post.

Alex correctly points out that while setting up a “try” for an exception costs nothing, raing an exception does! The question however is whether using exceptions is a speed overkill in the altar of code readability

It turns out that once […]

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Long pause…

Comments   1   Date Arrow  November 10, 2005 at 1:14pm   User  by Administrator

Hey! I’m still alive! But a bit buried though… under tons of papers and articles. I know it hasn’t been an active bloging period lately, but I’m writing my master’s thesis now and I usually get so sick of writing, that is is impossible to write blog posts!

Until I started writing the actual thesis and while developing the application part […]

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