Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died

Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by zerr on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:51AM (#25428010)

Interesting! I wonder, back in those days, when your day to day job involves coding in Assembly, I guess reaching to a disassembler on a regular basis also should've been a norm, no?

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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by WalterBright on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:37AM (#25428258)

Not really. But I can tell you that, as a compiler writer, reaching for the disassembler is what you do a lot of!

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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by zerr on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:27AM (#25428886)

Of course. And I bet you've memorized a fair share of opcodes as well! ;)

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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by WalterBright on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:01AM (#25429108)

Unintentionally, yes. One day I realized I just knew them. The code generator used to hardcode the opcodes, but I have since slowly migrated to use mnemonics, and the opcodes have faded somewhat in my mind.

Of course, I mean the 16 bit opcodes. The SIMD ones, no freakin' way!

It's like the Wizard of Oz. I know most of the dialog, though I never made any attempt to memorize it. A friend of mine knows all the dialog for all the Star Trek TOS episodes. He just realized one day he knew it.

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