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A comment on The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner).

Re:The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programmi... by ecaron on Sunday May 31, 2009 @01:54PM (#634908)
Nothing speaks better of Carmack's genius than his magic number: http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9
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Re:The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programmi... by llopis on Sunday May 31, 2009 @06:19PM (#635125)
John is a genius. No doubt about it. But he didn't come up with it, he just recognized it as a useful optimization: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
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