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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by pjmlp on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:03AM (#10978850)
Those APIs aren't available from the NDK, without an extra JNI performance hit.

Also I bet they don't behave 100% the same way, in regards to timing, across devices.

In graphics programming at the level Carmack develops, every ms counts.

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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by Camillo on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:17AM (#10978898)
He explicitly said he was using SurfaceTexture. That is a Java API, there is no SurfaceTexture in the NDK.
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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by pjmlp on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @03:43AM (#10978977)
Somehow I don't see him using Java, but if he said so, then ok.
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