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Most of that is being driven by the same people who worked on the original APIs. Being on a successful platform means all your rushed, good-enough APIs from years ago tend to now b…

The stack pointer is just that, a pointer. It points to a region of the heap. It can point anywhere. It's a data structure the assembly knows how to navigate, but it's not some spe…

> Your statement is equivalent to saying "there's no difference between pointers and integers" - technically, they are both just numbers that live in registers or somewhere in memo…

You can also learn that difference in something like C#. You don't need C for that. And C pretends there's a distinction between the stack & heap that doesn't actually exist. There…

Except it isn't, not really. Even just the distinction between the stack & heap is wrong. They aren't different things, just different functions called on the otherwise identical m…

Here, you can have your cake (electron) and eat it too (xi-core) https://github.com/acheronfail/xi-electron

Depends heavily on the GPU and the scene being rendered. On Android I've seen low-end GPUs bottlenecked by the shader ALU of all things, even though the 2D renderer only produces t…

Quite a few of us run Android Studio on 16GB laptops as well and it works fine there, too. It doesn't seem to be particularly RAM hungry.

I'm on the Android team and no, we don't. The current spec workstations are 128GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and 2x Xeon E5-2690 v4. But there's still a lot of the older 64GB & 96GB workstation…