2015/06/08

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

08:40

Up early.

11:54

Looking at GCC's preprocessor, #defines do not do any processing or translating when defined, so they are straight through for the most part. This simplifies things for me greatly. The only thing I have to handle is when the defined macros are actually used.

14:01

I do not believe the Java3D is rootable into a specific interfaces package similar to how java-jsr353-interfaces is. So for Java3D I should have a base class which then has plugin providers to give a 3D surface. This way for varying platforms I can have a software renderer, or use existing hardware.

14:14

So basically there will be my JSR926 implementation which will use dynamic providers. There will be basic multiple interfaces for example a software renderer, one which uses Vulkan, and another for say the Nintendo 64's graphical hardware. If there is modern shader hardware such as the Radeon 9800 then it should use a common interface similar to Gallium and the Java3D code I have uses that. For older fixed function hardware which is not as capable as newer hardware, there would be specific things for it. I would say that Java3D would be the core 3D graphics interface available.

18:23

Using lambdas will greatly simplify how my resequencing is done.