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Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines by ekianjo on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:57AM (#11239205)
Yes. But what I mean is, people look at some demos and say "wow this only fits into 4k", and they completely forget that these demos rely on hundred of Mbs of system libraries in the first place.

But sure, comparing between 4k demos is possible, but as DirectX evolves the comparison becomes unfair, since the system libraries add more functionalities over time.

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Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines by mateuszf on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:54AM (#11244180)
That's true. I still remember the times where all you had was api to set individual pixels in 64Kb memory area. Yet people were able to make nice effects even using 256 bytes of assembly code.
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