Comment by hi_dang_

Very anecdotal but of the people I know in game studios who are tasked with engine work, and people who make a killing doing FPGA work for HFT firms, both camps shook their head at Casey’s HMH thing. Uniformly I do not know of a single professional developer of this sort of caliber who looked at HMH and thought it looks great. Quite the opposite. I think they found his approach and justifications unsound as it would instil awful practices of premature unfounded optimization and a disdain for normal library code in favour of hand-rolling your own half-baked implementations based on outdated trivia. I agree with them on the basis that HMH exposed an unprepared and inexperienced audience to something that has to be regarded with utmost care. For this, I refer to Jonathan Blow’s presentation of “a list is probably good enough” as an antidote. I think JB’s recommendations are more in line with actual practices, whereas Casey just raised red flags uniformly from here-and-now engine devs shipping multi platform games.