Some fun Irrlicht Info!

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:29 am

Using the power of Linux on the windows GUI, with Cygwin I pulled together so cool info for you guys.

The Irrlicht Engine
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Lines of CPP Source Files
41,327

Lines of H Header Files
19,209

Total = 60,536

Total Chars.
In CPP
1,021,625

In H
686,646

Total = 1,708,271

Wow, thats some good programming Niko. I hope you see this post and see how big of an impact your many many hours of programming has done for the community.

eXodus · Post by **eXodus** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:14 am

Those are impressive stats indeed.

But remember that good coding techniques prevail over code length. I'm currently rewriting a project as part of my training and so far I achieve an average of 80% code reduction

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:17 am

as long as it means speed improvement, better memory access and a bug free app it's welcome!!

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:18 pm

Thats true, But if I made an app that was 60,000 lines of code I would be a very happy man. Also that may look like a lot of lines of code to you but Silent Hill 4: The Room was 500,000 lines give or take & Rachet and Clank: Going commando was around 1,000,000.

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:35 pm

check the graph applet ChrisE uses to keep track of his coding for Prototype (evolved powerrender engine)

http://powerrender.com/prx/main.htm

it's also a cool way

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:23 am

That looks very cool, so sad i had to download like 3 firefox extentions for this site to load.

I should keep it up to date.

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:41 am

heheheh, and to make things worse they announced that the latest version of firefox has spyware included!!! in other words, firfox has committed suicide!!!

check the info:
http://poptech.blogspot.com/2005/03/fir ... yware.html

arrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhh!!

eXodus · Post by **eXodus** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:39 am

Firefox doesn't have spyware included, it simply doesn't block them any better than IE.

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:44 pm

heh have you read the comments on that article?

well aparantly, the author of the article thinks the best weapon against spyware is
windows XP with SP2 with IE.

if we're going to drag OS'es into this, i can guarantee that
linux with Firefox will be a lot better at stopping spyware.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:34 pm

I have been using FireFox for sometime now. I can say I haven't gotten any spyware on my computer.

cartoonit · Post by **cartoonit** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:02 pm

I'd say the same, in fact I can't use IE anymore because its so slow, and crippled, thats with even re-installing it. The best thing is the fact that Firefox doesn't allow ActiveX components, these seem to be the one of the main problem areas.

It seems that MS have decided that IE 7.0 is needed before Long Horn, on one of the Blogs of the lead developers, he basically admitted that IE was one of the largest security threats to PC's and companies. Which is nice and assuring!!! Be interesting to see how big IE 7.0 is after all this new development!!!

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:06 am

Thats good to hear I guess, however I still think I am going to stay away from Mircsoft Products. However the Microsoft XNA Studio looks sweet!

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:03 pm

I tried FireFox, I did not like it at all. Many thinks it's great because of Tabbed browsing, but it's not like they invented it, Tabbed browsing is ok, but not all it's cracked up to be. FireFox has its own issues with performance, bugs and even security. Firefox, from my experience was much slower than IE.

IE does have it's problems also. IE is however, easily configurable, and if you want to take the time to setup custom security settings, it's really pretty darn secure, ( BTW, IE can be configured to prompt you about ActiveX controls or even just block them completely ), especially with WinXP SP2.

cartoonit · Post by **cartoonit** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:31 pm

I think its down to personal opinion about Firefox and the tabbing issue, also regarding performance (as I've said before it takes ages for my IE to open and to actually retrieve a page). Its also interesting the security issues regarding it, I've read many an article regarding OS software and the security problems/solutions that are required/left out...

In the end being connected to the Internet is essentially enough to get spyware and viruses, something we've all got to live with!!! Until (crackers/hackers) find somebody else to bug, which is not likely, every computer that is connected to the Internet is going to be vunerable...

niko · Post by **niko** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:34 pm

Sorry to read this post that late, and because of this my answer doesn't fit right into the current firefox topic, but hey: interesting stats. Didn't know that it is already that long.