groctel to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 16 days agoreason enough to fail the interviewimagemessage-square154linkfedilinkarrow-up1893arrow-down114
arrow-up1879arrow-down1imagereason enough to fail the interviewgroctel to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square154linkfedilink
minus-squarertxnlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·16 days agoIIRC, Elite used lookup tables for trigonometric functions on certain target platforms (maybe the NES) because memory wasn’t as much of a constraint as computing performance. It’s a barrel of game compressed into a pint of code.
IIRC, Elite used lookup tables for trigonometric functions on certain target platforms (maybe the NES) because memory wasn’t as much of a constraint as computing performance. It’s a barrel of game compressed into a pint of code.