Re: SFML2 Demo Dilema - Solved
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) May 13, 2015
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This is rather overstating it, don't you think? A bit like pouring a cup of hot water into a bath full of warm water. Yeah, there'll be an improvement but not by all that much.
The memstruct feature opens the door to cross-architecture programming (i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit). The traditional methods of structure wrapping I posted above really fall apart in the 64-bit world, because almost everything shifts up from 4 to 8 bytes wide (but not everything!). Having to manage a litany of ifdef's to provide this compatibility without memstruct is going to be tedious, at best.
Will this "huge advantage" be in the next official release? Apparently not..
Well, memstruct certainly should be included in the 4.1 release. I've used it quite a lot and I know Matt's fixed a lot of outstanding issues. What else remains?
-Greg
