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-[SamJansen]. Me. I attend to WaikatoUniversity. I used to run DebianLinux on my home computer (along with MicrosoftWindows at times), but I am now a GentooLinux convert. I do all my programming in [Vim]; I am a programmer by trade. Programming languages I use, in order of how much I use them include:
-* C++
-* Java
-* C
-* Perl
-* Any other random language I don't use much or was forced to learn like Python /
Scheme / Haskell / etc.
+[SamJansen]. [
Me|http://www.wand.net.nz/personDetail.php?id=211]
. I attend to WaikatoUniversity. I used to run DebianLinux on my home computer (along with MicrosoftWindows at times), but I am now a GentooLinux convert. I do all my programming in [Vim]; I am a programmer by trade. Programming languages I use, in order of how much I use them include:
+* [C]
+* [
C++]
+* [Python]
+* [Perl]
+* [Java]
+* Any other random language I don't use much or was forced to learn like [
Scheme]
/ [
Haskell]
/ etc.
-Note that the above list says little about preference.
+Note that the above list says little about preference. For example, [IHateJava]. [C++] is generally my language of choice, but I am also a big [Python] fan
.
-These days
I spend my time working on my honours
project in the WandGroup working with FreeBSD. I'm playing around with adding a new
network stack to a
network simulator. Information about this project can be found at [http://voodoo.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~stj2/420
/].
+I spend my time working on my PhD
project in the WandGroup working with [
FreeBSD]
. These days
I'm the TCP expert of the WandGroup. I added the FreeBSD
network stack in the NS-2
network simulator as part of my honours project, and I am now continuing this research in my PhD
. Information about this project can be found at [http://voodoo.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~stj2/].
-My program, 'Memhog':
-
-C++:
- while(1)new int;
-C:
- #include <stdlib.h>
- while(1)malloc(3);
-
-
-From the above it is obvious the C is more verbose than C++ -- it needs an whole extra line! Note that malloc-ing 3 bytes means it looks somewhat neat as it links to the manpage. There is no other reason
for the number.
-
-would write
'Memhog' in other languages, but those damn garbage collectors get in the way.
-
-''Actually, it should still be fairly easy - try making
a global array or similar, and loop adding objects to it. There would be other ways depending on the GarbageCollector that is being used - some can't deal with self-referential loops
of objects, for example.''
-
-Agreed. However, it is often hard to be quite as terse as the C/C++ equivalent. For example, in Java the easiest way to use up all the memory is just to keep adding things into a list:
- public class Mem
- {
- public static void main(String args[]) {
- java.util.LinkedList list = new java.util.LinkedList();
- while(true) list.add(new Integer());
- }
- }
-Now, the other problem here is that in a language like Java, once the heap it full it exits rather racefully with an "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.!OutOfMemoryError". This, to put it quite frankly, is no fun.
-
-
-Seriously, though, what coding I do in
my spare time is generally done
on BungGameEngine
.
+See BungGameEngine
for something
I've spend quite
a bit
of my spare coding
time on.
Some C/C++ links of note:
* [wxWindows] (multi platform GUI -- like a much better MFC)
* [OpenGL|http://www.opengl.org] (simple multi platform 3d graphics API)
