TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by staunch on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:29PM (#15462489)

"first you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer"

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by justicezyx on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:23PM (#15462868)

"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection"

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by Anchor on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:16AM (#15463763)

Except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by adwn on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:54AM (#15463899)

And for the problem of insufficient performance.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by Rexxar on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:29AM (#15464001)

Cache are a level of indirection and they increase performance.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by adwn on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:46AM (#15464772)

Some problems of insufficient performance can be solved by layers of indirection, but not all. The original quote quantifies over all problems:

> "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection"

Otherwise, good point – I did not think of this.

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