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Obsidian’s Aliens RPG was canned because of dysfunction and slow progress, Josh Sawyer reveals
Pentiment director and long-time Obsidian developer Josh Sawyer has shed some light on the Aliens RPG that was in production at the studio and sadly cancelled by publisher Sega. Looking back at cancelled games is always a fun “what if” exercise, especially in this case. Obsidian’s role-playing chops in an Aliens game? Were our charisma stats going to protect us from the ever-murderous Xenomorphs?
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Can Codon ‘Turbocharge Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler’?
“We do type checking during the compilation process, which lets us avoid all of that expensive type manipulation at runtime,” says Ariya Shajii, an MIT CSAIL graduate student and lead author on a recent paper about Codon.
Without any unnecessary data or type checking during runtime, Codon results in zero overhead, according to Shajii. And when it comes to performance, “Codon is typically on par with C++. Versus Python, what we usually see is 10 to 100x improvement,” he says. But Codon’s approach comes with its trade-offs. “We do this static type checking, and we disallow some of the dynamic features of Python, like changing types at runtime dynamically,” says Shajii. “There are also some Python libraries we haven’t implemented yet….”
Codon was initially designed for use in genomics and bioinformatics. “Data sets are getting really big in these fields, and high-level languages like Python and R are too slow to handle terabytes per set of sequencing data,” says Shajii. “That was the gap we wanted to fill — to give domain experts who are not necessarily computer scientists or programmers by training a way to tackle large data without having to write C or C++ code.” Aside from genomics, Codon could also be applied to similar applications that process massive data sets, as well as areas such as GPU programming and parallel programming, which the Python-based compiler supports. In fact, Codon is now being used commercially in the bioinformatics, deep learning, and quantitative finance sectors through the startup Exaloop, which Shajii founded to shift Codon from an academic project to an industry application.
To enable Codon to work with these different domains, the team developed a plug-in system. “It’s like an extensible compiler,” Shajii says. “You can write a plug-in for genomics or another domain, and those plug-ins can have new libraries and new compiler optimizations….” In terms of what’s next for Codon, Shajii and his team are currently working on native implementations of widely used Python libraries, as well as library-specific optimizations to get much better performance out of these libraries. They also plan to create a widely requested feature: a WebAssembly back end for Codon to enable running code on a Web browser.
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Why You Need a New Router, Even on a Slow Internet Connection
If your home internet is pretty slow, you might think it doesn’t matter if you have a dusty old router without the latest bells and whistles. Here’s why you should give serious consideration to upgrading.
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WWE 2K23’s MyRise story mode is a slow burn that’s worth the effort
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