Misc/abrash-black-book
Watch
1
0
Fork
You've already forked abrash-black-book
 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Strip comments and inline ids onto h*

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
James Gregory 2013-12-30 15:11:04 +11:00
commit 0f5f617adb
362 changed files with 2519 additions and 6694 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

17
18-02.html
View file

@ -10,16 +10,9 @@
<meta name="vspubdate" content="07/01/97" />
<meta name="vscategory" content="Web and Software Development: Game Development,Web and Software Development: Graphics and Multimedia Development" />
<title>Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition: It's a Wonderful Life</title><!-- HEADER -->
<!-- Empty Reference Subhead -->
<!--ISBN=1576101746//-->
<!--TITLE=Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition//-->
<!--AUTHOR=Michael Abrash//-->
<!--PUBLISHER=The Coriolis Group, Inc.//-->
<title>Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition: It's a Wonderful Life</title>
<meta name="chapter" content="18" />
<meta name="pages" content="351-352" />
<!--UNASSIGNED1//-->
<!--UNASSIGNED2//-->
</head>
<body>
@ -37,7 +30,7 @@
<p><br /></p>
<h3><a id="Heading4"></a>Table-Driven Magic</h3>
<h3 id="Heading4">Table-Driven Magic</h3>
<p>David Stafford won my first Optimization Challenge by means of a huge look-up table and an incredible state machine driven by that table. The table didn&rsquo;t cause David&rsquo;s entry to exceed the line limit because David&rsquo;s submission included code to generate the table on the fly as part of the build process. David has done himself one better this time with his QLIFE program; not only does his build process generate a 64K table, but it also generates virtually all his code, consisting of 17,000-plus lines of assembly language spanning another 64K. What David has done is write the equivalent of a bitblt compiler for the Game of Life; one might in fact call it a Life compiler. What David&rsquo;s code generates is still a general-purpose program; it takes arbitrary seed values, and can run for an arbitrary number of generations, so it&rsquo;s not as if David simply hardwired the instructions to draw each successive screen. However, it&rsquo;s a general-purpose program that is exquisitely tailored to the task it needs to perform.</p>
@ -120,10 +113,6 @@
<div align="center">
Graphics Programming Black Book &copy; 2001 Michael Abrash
</div><!-- all of the reference materials (books) have the footer and subfoot reveresed -->
<!-- reference_subfoot = footer -->
<!-- reference_footer = subfoot -->
<!-- BEGIN SUB FOOTER -->
<!-- END FOOTER -->
</div>
</body>
</html>