On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Peter Verswyvelen <[email protected]> [2009-03-07 18:34:10+0100] > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Is it a performance issue? > > Yes. As Roman Leshchinskiy explained it's because parallel arrays are > not fused properly yet. > But it's quite trivial to modify Hpysics to use ordinary lists or > arrays, and I think it'll give reasonable performance. > Personally I would not mind too much about performance initially; I'm very confident that lots of optimizations can be done afterwards - maybe even letting the GPU handle certain tasks. > > > > > Integrating hpysics with Grapefruit might be a good topic for the > > > Hackaton, > > > > trying to make a simple game (e.g. Pong or Breakout) without using > > > recursive > > > > signal functions, but with correct collision response and > > > better-than-Euler > > > > integration, all handled by the physics engine. Other FRP engines > could > > > be > > > > tried, but Grapefruit hacking is already a topic on the Hackaton, so > it > > > > would combine efforts. > > > > > > Yes, I'm actively pondering Hpysics+Grapefruit (it's the primary reason > > > of my interest in Grapefruit). But first of all we need to get graphics > > > support into Grapefruit. > > > > > > Does your proposal re Hackathon indicate that you'd like to join? > > > > > > > Yes, Thomas 'Bob' Davie and I already joined the Hackaton, but the wiki > is > > not yet updated.I see you've joined too, cool > > Great! I'll have more free time after March 15, and we can arrange an > IRC meeting to discuss this. Sounds like a good idea! > > > -- > Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ > "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain >
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