Wow, I forgot all about Tucows! I used to be a disciple.

"Real" war gaming has degrees: dispersed, killed, surrendered / captured. Prisoners are escorted to the rear by x% guards; can be intercepted / freed, etc. In your case, it would appear all battles must end in a slaughter. "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

some things with ADs is the shift of uncertainty the long last 1 second, is so frustrating, unless this just a thing on "other" video sites and how many, when, how long, all add to a bad uncertainty. 90s and 2000s TV growing up was fine. Its N ads, or when the station Ad comes on, the show will resume after. And at set times.

I do use code generation where template won't suffice, like generating state machines, but it complicates the build process. In the end metaprogramming evolved from simple GP without intrinsic language support for it and that is ultimately what I'm complaining about. Newer iterations of C++ post say 20 are starting to rectify this, and make the concepts more "first class" That will improve readability without complicating the build. Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

trønderen wrote: I have seen compile times drop by a factor far larger than 60! I think you read more into what I said than what is there. Given a current product which is currently running in a production environment. The performance for that and only that is impacted by the following 1. Requirements (highest impact) 2. Architecture 3. Design/implementation 4. Technology. (lowest) The above statement has nothing to do with the history of computing. It is specifically about the real world day to day needs of developers that might attempt to increase performance. trønderen wrote: The ability to trap to the debugger on special conditions can be very helpful, That of course has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with features of the debugger. Going on that it was a lot easier to debug 50 years ago because threads did not exist. And because the hardware was much slower.

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