Mike Acton at CppCon (prominent game-dev lecture to non-game-dev's)

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 06:03:04 UTC, Manu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I just thought I'd drop this here for peoples interest.
>
> It occurred to me that I usually take this sort of thing 
> separately to
> my interest in D, but since there are few gamedev's here, and I 
> often
> have trouble attracting sympathy for our industry concerns, 
> this might
> give some window into the way we think, and tend to approach...
> basically everything.
>
> Mike is a super well known (and outspoken) engine dev, every 
> gamedev
> knows who he is.
> What he's presenting here to CppCon is something that we've 
> been doing
> pervasively for 10-15 years.
> It's all fairly basic and obvious, but all-too-often ignored.
> You can see the focus on codegen and low-level performance, and 
> how
> much attention we tend to pay to it :)
> This leads into things like, for instance, why I'm so fussy 
> about
> things like very highly-controlled handling of ref, and
> final-by-default.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc&feature=youtu.be

I missed it as well in the other thread, so thank for sharing.