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Week 11 Matchups
All games are at 7:30 p.m.
T.L. Hanna (2-8) at Westside (0-10)
All is not lost in this meeting of teams that have combined for a 2-18 record this season. With a victory, the Yellow Jackets, who've won seven straight in the rivalry, clinch a spot in the 4A playoffs.
Easley (9-1) at Wren (8-2)
Second place and a home playoff game is on the line in this one. Easley won last season, 30-21.
Class 3A
B-HP (8-2) at Greenville (4-6)
The Bears had an 18-game regular season winning streak snapped this season while the Red Raiders' 36-game region winning streak ended. The last two times the teams played a region title was on the line in 2006 and 2007.
Travelers Rest (2-8) at Daniel (9-1)
The Lions are a perfect 10-0 against the Devil Dogs since 1960. Daniel is giving up just 4.6 points per game this season.
Eastside (2-8) at Seneca (8-2)
The Bobcats still have a bitter taste in their mouths about how last season ended in the playoffs with a 51-7 loss to Greenville. Eastside has been shutout five times this season.
Class 2A, Division I
Palmetto (4-6) at Newberry (7-3)
The Mustangs are coming off a hard-fought, 13-7 loss to Skyline 2A champion Pendleton. The Bulldogs finished fourth in Region 3-2A.
Crescent (2-8) at Gilbert (4-6)
The Tigers' two wins came against two of the least successful teams in Class 1A. Gilbert went 3-2 in Region 2-2A.
Class 2A Division II
Liberty (8-2) at Indian Land (7-3)
The Red Devils are making their first postseason appearance since 2005 and haven't won a playoff game since 1979.
Region 8-3A Championship
Stephens County (8-1) at Gainesville (8-1)
The Indians are playing for their first region title since 2007. Stephens lost to Gainesville in the second round of the state playoffs in 2002.
Region 8-3A Play-in
Franklin County (5-4) at Oconee County (5-4)
The Lions are 2-8 against Warriors, but won the last meeting 21-17 in 2009.
Region 8-2A Play-in
East Hall (5-4) at Elbert County (8-1)
The Blue Devils sport a 5-1 record against East Hall, including a 48-0 win this season.
Hart County (5-4) at Union County (3-5)
The Bulldogs will miss the postseason for the first time in 19 years. Hart downed Union 36-7 this season.
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Queen's honours national and international luminaries and people who have played an exceptional role in the university's development with five different kinds of honorary degree.
These are:
The first three degrees - the LLD, DSC, and DD - are always honorary; none of these degrees are ever conferred at Queen's "by examination."
The Doctorate of Divinity is the oldest of the five. Queen's granted its first honorary degrees - Doctorate of Divinity degrees - in 1858 to two prominent Presbyterian clergymen: the Rev James C. Muir and the Rev Alexander MacGillivray.
A more famous name was called when Queen's awarded its first two Doctorate of Laws degrees in 1863: these went to Sir John A. Macdonald and the Rev Michael Willis.
The Doctorate of Science degree was first awarded more recently, in 1951, to William Percy Dobson, a prominent Ontario Hydro researcher.
The first Honorary Master of Science degree was awarded in 1953 to staff member Ronald Bradfield, and the first Honorary Master of Arts degree in 1970 to staff member Kathleen Healey.
Before that, in 1897, there was another notable first, this time a national one: Queen's became the first university in Canada to grant an honorary degree to a woman. She was the Countess of Aberdeen, founding President of the National Council of Women, founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses, and wife of Governor General the Earl of Aberdeen. She was granted a Doctorate of Laws.
Canadian Governors General and Prime Ministers have been favourite candidates for Queen's honorary degrees. Other prominent national and international figures so honoured have been:
The Senate committee on Honorary Degrees considers all nominations for honorary degrees, recommends a list of recipients to the Senate and also advises the Senate on general policies relating to honorary degrees.
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An emotive visually stunning game set in a familiar but strange future - an imaginative evolution of the point&click adventure genre Read more
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This project's funding goal was not reached on May 22, 2013.
An emotive visually stunning game set in a familiar but strange future - an imaginative evolution of the point&click adventure genre
Atomhawk Design+Lantern Interactive
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Atomhawk Design+Lantern Interactive
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About this project
Keep in Touch
If you missed this campaign or if you are one of our amazing backers and want to find out what happens next - then please join one of our channels to keep in touch with all the latest developments on The Realm.
Or join our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter
Learn more about our amazing game
The low-down on the gameplay
Our cool Bonus Features
How the game will look & feel (the techy stuff)
Development of the characters with Charlie Bowater
About our incredible soundtrack and composer Richard Jacques
The Vision
We are a group of experienced game developers asking for your help to make a unique and visually stunning graphical adventure. We will be using a combination of inspiring 3D and beautifully crafted 2D artwork to set a new artistic benchmark for the point and click genre, not just on PC (Windows & Linux) and Mac, but on tablet devices too. We call our style 'Western Art, Eastern Heart'.
We're re-imagining the point and click adventure, bringing it up to date so that it can be played just as easily on touch screen devices as with a mouse. We've taken out complicated inventory screens and obscure puzzles and replaced them with the streamlined interactivity and intuitive design now expected of modern games.
So What Is 'The Realm'?
The Realm is set in a far distant future where the world has been reclaimed by nature. Our once proud cities now lie abandoned - overgrown with strange plants and twisted vines. The locations in The Realm reflect the real-life landscapes and architecture of the North East of England.
Some humans remain, but they are now leading a more simple life based around small rural communities entirely divorced from modern technology and science. The age of magic and mysticism has returned and there are rumours of stirrings in the forests.
The Realm follows the story of Sarina, a headstrong young girl who leaves the safety of her village to embark on a desperate quest to discover a cure for her sick mother. On her journey she befriends a legendary giant stone golem named Toru, a gentle but powerful creature, and the unlikely couple begin a treacherous adventure together.
Sarina and Toru travel across the wild and beautiful land to a forgotten city, where legend speaks of a flower growing with amazing healing properties. Their presence in the city awakens a long forgotten shadowy force that controls the Lampheads - mysterious plant-like creatures with a powerful and deadly gaze.
How Do I Play The Realm?
In The Realm, the player controls both our heroes - Sarina and Toru. To complete the adventure, the player must learn to utilize the unique abilities of both characters to solve the many puzzles and to overcome the many threats that dwell in The Realm.
Sarina is adventurous, feisty and smart. However, she is vulnerable to the many natural hazards and creatures found in the world. She is fast and nimble, but her size means that she is unable to perform many of the tasks required to progress. Luckily, Toru is able to lend his power in assistance.
Toru is a giant stone golem who has been dormant in the forest for a long time. He's naive, pure and he can't remember his past. He fascinated and easily distracted by the wonders around him.
Slow moving but powerful, he is impervious to many hazards, and throughout the game he learns new skills and abilities from Sarina.
Only by leading Sarina and Toru through a number of beautiful but dangerous locations and solving a series of environment-based puzzles, will you be able to help our heroes fulfil Sarina's quest and help Toru discover his purpose.
Sarina and Toru can be moved around each location and interact with objects found within. When interacting with an object, each character is presented with a unique set of available actions, specific to the given context. There are characters that help, and others that hinder, and there are deadly traps and evil lurking in the shadows. You must use all your cunning to survive!
Making great games is a costly business - we know all too well as we've been making them for many years. We've already invested a significant amount of time and money into this project, but we still need your help to fund the development of the game. Of course from our total of £195K, we still need to pay Kickstarter, payment fees and then we need to make and post your wonderful rewards out of that too.
We estimate that it will take eight months to build the game and there's lots of work to do in that time: designing puzzles, drawing the environments, the creatures, the objects, all the different animations, dressing the scenes, recording the music and sound effects, coding the game, and testing it.
We believe in this game, and we're doing as much as we can with our own money and time, but there are no shortcuts to producing the beautiful game we want to create.
Stretch Goals
If we manage to exceed our target then any further funding will go straight into making the game even more fabulous.
We will spend every available penny on cramming as much beauty and enjoyment into the game as possible, but there are also some specific goals we'd like to achieve as well:
====> 250K - MORE CONTENT - We will extend the game experience by adding in more locations, characters and puzzles giving you a more engrossing in-depth adventure.
====> 300K - MORE PLATFORMS - It has always been our dream to see this game on tablet, and we have kept that in mind right from the beginning with a touch-screen friendly design. This level of investment will enable us to create an iPad and Android version too.
====> 350K - MORE MUSIC - We know Richard Jacques will do an amazing soundtrack for us, after all he's won more awards than he can fit on his mantelpiece. If we raise this amount of money, we can afford to hire a real orchestra and bring his score to life!
Anything over that and we'll invest in extra content such as new levels, more cut-scene footage, making the game longer and more in-depth. There is so much we'd like to do! We'll work with our supporters to finalise what we spend the extra budget on.
We showed the game to the usual publishers and, even though they all loved the concept, they weren't able to provide funding for this type of game.
It just doesn't tick the convenient boxes, or incorporate the latest buzzwords - it's not freemium, it's not social, and it's not a cheap mobile puzzle game or a multi-million pound first person shooter. The Realm is a good old fashioned adventure game, made with love and care by dedicated artists and creators.
We sincerely believe that you will want to play this type of game too - something unique, innovative and engrossing. With your support we can prove that there is a market for this and bring this exciting project to life!
Our Story
Atomhawk Design has been making fantastic art for top developers and publishers of AAA games for some years. The Realm started as an internal art project created in the team's own time, born out of their insatiable passion for creating cool stuff.
Around a year ago, Ron Ashtiani (Atomhawk's Creative Director) reconnected with Tom Szirtes, an old colleague, at the Game Developers Conference.
Ron and Tom had worked together many years ago on The Thing - the best selling, survival-horror game - and had remained good friends. Ron shared the illustrations that Atomhawk had been working on, and Tom was immediately enchanted by the magical world the team had created. Tom suggested making the concept into an adventure game.
Ron and Tom then recruited another member of the old Thing team, Andrew Curtis, to work on a game design. Inspired by the potential of the project, Tom quit his day-job making mobile games for a telecoms company to concentrate on The Realm.
Last November they travelled to Games Connection in Paris to test our game concept out on the industry. It was picked by the advisory group for the prestigious "Selected Projects" event and seen by many publishers and investors. Everyone loved the concept, they all wanted to play it, but weren't willing to invest in an adventure game that didn't have a hook to continually extract money from you, the player.
We have the talent and the experience to make this an amazing game - we just need to find people who can share in our vision. That's why we are here on Kickstarter - we need to your support to make this game. Please prove us right!
The Team
We have a fantastic, highly experienced team with a strong relationship and shared vision:
Ron Ashtiani founded Atomhawk Design in 2009 with a team of highly talented artists from Midway Games. Over the last four years his creative guidance and determination has helped drive the company to become one of the world's leading art and design studios. Prior to Atomhawk, Cumron worked for a number of high profile game development companies. During the last 16 years he has focused on artistic/creative direction and played a key role in the running of several studios and in the development of 20 shipped game titles as well as numerous films and applications.
Tom Szirtes started programming at the age of 10 and was developing professionally before leaving school. His first 'proper' job was at Sega working on Dreamcast and on many hit games including Sonic. Tom has 17 years experience in development on a number of AAA game projects. More recently he has been managing development at Orange's R&D centre where he's been responsible for overseeing a number of successful and award winning innovative mobile apps and games.
Richard Jacques is a multi award-winning and BAFTA / Ivor Novello nominated composer for video games, film and television. He has worked on many blockbuster games including: Mass Effect, James Bond 007: Bloodstone, Little Big Planet 2 and Starship Troopers. The man's a legend.
Andrew Curtis has over 15 years of games industry experience, having shipped multiple titles (including Killzone 2&3, as well as Start the party; Save the World) on a wide variety of platforms including PC, Handheld and Consoles as well as motion gaming and emerging technologies. Andrew specializes in creative direction, design process and new IP generation built on a wealth of practical experience at studios including: Creative Assembly, Computer Artworks, Electronic Arts, Guerrilla Games, Supermassive Games and Softkinetic Studios.
Projects that the Team have worked on
We hope that after reading this you'll want to help bring The Realm to life and come along with us on this amazing journey. Every little helps so please tell your friends about the project, and together we can make this game a reality!
You can follow our progress on our website and keep in touch with us on our Mailing list, Facebook and Twitter where we'd love to hear from you too.
Risks and challenges
Building a game is always difficult there is so many things that have to come together to make it great - art, design, technology and audio. Luckily we have a fantastic team with a proven track record making great games for some of the most successful companies in the business.
Still we are trying to do some things in this game that haven't been tried before in the same way. So we've got more work to do to prove these game mechanics add up to a meaningful experience. We will manage this risk by building the game using agile development techniques - constantly testing it and playing it to make sure its fun and engaging. And then of course we have you, and we really want you to be part of this process. We'll be sharing our progress with you and asking for your feedback so we know we'll building a game you're going to want to play.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Yes, the game will be available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish
Paypal payments don't work through Kickstarter so they don't contribute to reaching our target. We will add Paypal once we've reached our Kickstarter target.
Yes we've just introduced a new PHYSICAL DELUXE ELDER tier that includes a Boxed Copy with booklet and printed art cards. Check it out in the rewards
Sadly, because we are based in the UK, there is no Amazon Payments option. It's outside our control. We know its an inconvenience - but we really do hope that you will still be able to support us.
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This is the ultimate digital suite. Including The Realm: Special Edition with Documentary and Design Document PDF plus the Digital Soundtrack and an Artbook PDF.Less
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We have a limited number of signed Art of Atomhawk books available to give away. This has become a 'must have' book for artists and fans of fantasy art. Plus all the rewards in the Journey Man tier.Less
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What better way to enjoy our lovely art than to have it adorning your wall? Yes, you will receive an attractive A2 sized colour poster of our title image to enjoy plus all rewards in the Bold Traveller tier (see matrix)Less
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ICCV Helmholtz Prize
The Helmholtz Prize is an award given biyearly by the TCPAMI at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) for fundamental contributions in Computer Vision. The award recognizes ICCV papers from ten years ago with significant impact on computer vision research. The award is named after the 19th century physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.
Winners are decided by a committee appointed by the TCPAMI Awards Committee. Click here for the wikipedia article on this prize.
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- Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin and Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active Contour Models, ICCV 1987
- Michael J. Swain and Dana H. Ballard, Indexing via color histograms, ICCV 1990
- Bill Freeman and Ted Adelson, Steerable filters for early vision, image analysis, and wavelet decomposition, ICCV 1990
- Michael Black and P. Anandan, A framework for the robust estimation of optical flow, ICCV 1993
- Paul Viola and William M. Wells III, Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information, ICCV 1995
- Richard Hartley, In Defence of the 8-Point Algorithm, ICCV 1995
- Carlo Tomasi and Roberto Manduchi, Bilateral Filtering for Gray and Color Images, ICCV 1998
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Rust Wire point us an extremely powerful narrated photo essay called Detroit: The Troubled City. Unfortunately, the player format is too large for this blog, so I cant embed it, but I definitely recommend checking it out.
Speaking of Detroit, the New York Times this week had coverage of how the troubles in the auto industry are affecting even upscale suburbs in its article "Gross Pointe Blues".
All these stories of woe, and the fetishization of decline and decay in Detroit have left many citizens defiant. Detroit News columnist Amber Arellano wrote a piece recently called "Why This Detroiter Stays". Per Arellano:
It's tough for some folks to understand that many of us want to be here. We didn't end up here by inertia or lack of vision or better options. We're educated and mobile; we can live anywhere. We choose to stay — or to return.
That is the case for my husband and I and many Generation Xers and Yers who are committed to Metro Detroit and the Rust Belt, even as the region struggles to get through this extraordinarily difficult economic crisis.
We return because we love the people and the culture. We stay because we're proud of our roots, of who we are. We're not naïve about this region's daunting challenges; we're choosing to tackle them. We're committed to our families and communities.
I admire the fighting spirit. Yet I can't help but wonder whether or not that fierce pride in roots and tradition isn't actually a cause of the decline. If they really want to turn around the fortunes of that city, its residents need to do some soul searching about their own culture and values and how they contributed to creating that mess. This is a lesson not just for Detroit, but for nearly the entire Midwest. That's an insufficiently backed claim I realize, but please stay tuned for a major post forthcoming on that topic shortly.
To end talk of Detroit on a positive note, Time Magazine has a photo essay of 13 people who explain why they love Detroit.
Over in Cleveland, the Plain Dealer tallies up the cost of inefficient government. Cuyahoga County jurisdictions have more employees and spend more money to provide similar services as other large Ohio counties.
And also via Rust Wire, the Washington Post runs a story on white collar jobs losses in Toledo.
Ok, I told myself that I wasn't going to post this, but I can't resist. The guy behind the "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video" apparently had it rejected by the Department of Tourism, so he came up with this second attempt. I must say, it isn't half as funny as the first one.
In Cincinnati, officials are grappling with a projected $40 million deficit that took the city by surprise. Keep in mind this is on a city population of only about 350,000 – so a big amount
IdeaFestival Louisville runs a great blog. For those of you who haven't read it, check out this short two minute video clip they recently carried from Amy Chua about the strategic imperative of diversity. (If this video doesn't show up, click here):
Back up in the Windy City, Crain's Chicago Business did a major piece on the challenges facing the city's transportation infrastructure, and the threat it poses to a city that has long been the transportation hub of America.
Here's another video, this one a streetfilm overview of the McDonald's Cycle Center in Millennium Park, Chicago. Hat tip Broken Sidewalk. (If you can't see the embedded video, click here).
And lastly in the video department, here is a great video of Carmel, Indiana Mayor Jim Brainard talking about roundabouts and the benefits thereof. Hat tip to PPS's Twitter account. This is probably a good pay it forward moment, since I'm the one that told them about Carmel's roundabout program in the first place.
Ed Glaeser has a great piece about why globalization led to bigger cities.
And Joel Kotkin tackles the idea of the "Luxury City vs. the Middle Class".
And the New York Times reports on New York City's new street design manual. According to the NYT:
Imagine narrow European-style roadways shared by pedestrians, cyclists and cars, all traveling at low speeds. Sidewalks made of recycled rubber in different colors under sleek energy-efficient lamps. Mini-islands jutting into the street, topped by trees and landscaping, designed to further slow traffic and add a dash of green.
This is what New York City streets could look like, according to the Bloomberg administration, which has issued the city's first street design manual in an effort to make over the utilitarian 1970s-style streetscape that dominates the city.
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Mayor Daley takes blame for parking meter problems (Tribune)
IDOT's road plan focuses on maintaining the status quo (Daily Herald)
Warehouse-building boom in Rickenbacker area produced big boxes hard to lease or sell in recession
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seven games, due to a shoulder injury, in 2011. But he still completed 61% of his passes for 1,527 yards with nine touchdowns and nine interceptions. And Coleman, who transferred to Chattanooga from the University of Tennessee, threw for a 6,871 yards during his three-year stay with the Mocs.
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As you probably know, the Detroit Pistons were slotted to finish seventh in the NBA draft lottery but slipped to No. 8 when the ping-pong balls were drawn. Do you know how close it came to being a lot, lot better?
Pistons matched first 3 (of 4) digits for No. 3 pick, pistons.com editor Keith Langlois tweeted. Last digit sent pick to Wizards.
How often has that happened to you in the Pick 4? Did they at least get a scratch-off ticket out of the deal?
And the Pistons take ...
In his second stab at a mock draft, by the way, SI.coms Chris Mannix has the Pistons taking 6-foot-6 Syracuse point guard Michael Carter-Williams.
Mannix says Carter-Williams, arguably the best pure playmaker in the draft, could be too good to pass up. ... If he can harness his size and improve his jump shot, he could develop quickly.
He previously had the Pistons taking UCLAs Shabazz Muhammad, whom he now has slipping to Milwaukee, at No. 15.
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Jack Nicklaus, hosting his Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, took on the wall-to-wall media coverage in one those back-in-my-day speeches.
We were trying to figure out how to get somebody to write about anything when we played, Nicklaus said Wednesday. I think today you have to figure out how you keep somebody from writing about anything. Its a big difference.
The Sergio-Tiger thing, I mean, its stupid. Do guys have an issue one with another? They usually resolve it themselves. You guys want to resolve it in the newspapers today. Nobody needs that.
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In celebration of his new book THE WES ANDERSON COLLECTION, award-winning critic Matt Zoller Seitz will be appearing for a very special screening of THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, Anderson's richly conceived saga of the fading glory of a once-great family.
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster.
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Yesterday, Grandfather Home for Children released a statement on the apparent drowning death of a 14-year old Raleigh area teen from the home Monday night. CEO Jim Swinkola said "It appears to be a tragic accident, but full investigations are underway." He explained that the boy was
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After skiing the ARG a few years ago I was excited to get on the new updated version, the Bubba. The ARG was a great ski but to anyone who has skied it knows what I mean when I say it was scary at times skiing back to the chair. The Bubba is years of Armada R&D complied into making their best powder ski to date and moving past the single dimensional ARG. It's not a ski you want to grab when there's no new snow but it gets you by. It excels in deep and soft snow but even in crud the ski handles it with an improved shape that doesn't get deflected around as easy but still can break loose to change it's turn shape, dump speed quickly or change direction.
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The new Armada Bubba is a big one, but don't let that fool you. My first rockered ski was the Armada ARG, which I loved. The surf-board style rocker shape and smooth tapered tips are absolutely perfect in powder. But the ARG, as many people know, is horrible in between pow runs and can even be sketchy. Taking the concept of the ARG, going bigger, but adding true sidecut between the contact points in what you get with the Bubba. For a ski that is as wide as they come, I still managed to go 50 on hardpack and not worry about it. For me, the JJ is a little too turny, even catchy at times, but the wider sidecut and smoother taper transition of the Bubba make for nice turns whether on edge or sitting flat.
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The Bubbas are absolutely amazing in soft stuff/pow but struggle a bit on hard pack.
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The day I was on this ski was definitely not its glory day. The sun was out, we hadn't gotten any new snow in several weeks, and everything was hard, crusty and skied. On this particular day the Bubba was a little to soft and flighty, but I could really tell I would adore it as a luxury pow ski. The narrow tip and tail are very soft in comparison to the rigid underfoot area of the ski. The camber underfoot helped the ski get on edge slightly, but the enormous waist and dramatic tip and tail rocker seemed a little unpractical for the conditions. I hope I get a chance to ski it in chest deep pow!
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If you liked the ARG, you got a new best friend named Bubba! It was not quite as stiff as I thought it would be, but definitely a really playful, surfy pow ski. They can be chattery at high speeds on hardpack, yet they still hold a solid edge. An epic powride indeed!


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generics: for (class obj:list) 3x slower how come ?.
ArrayList list = new ArrayList(500);
int a=0;
for (String s:list)
why is the code below a factor 3 faster ?
int a=0;
int size=list.size();
for (int i=0;i
> you did not notice the main loop that iterates 10
> times over the entire test sequence ?
Hotpot triggers a full compilation after 10.000 -> 15.000 method invocations, otherwise just an OSR compilation is done if a method is long enough on the top of the stack. That means at least some stuff is still interpreted or just OSR compiled.
> but thats an bug that is in progress status.
Yes I know this bug, it was filed by me.
But note that it talkes about unusual loop constructs which confuse the server compiler, not about a general slowdown which happens at "second" *rofl* compilation.
So in general this has nothing or just very little to do with your stuff.
> and how can you state that "some ar interpreted".
> that statement shows that you have not even run these
> tests for your self trying to figure it out.
Right, since this type of performance "problems" get in my eyes just very little attention.
If you operate over collections which contain objects you'll most likely do something with these objects which will most likely consume much more time that the loop itself consumes.
Ok, its not pretty but its not that big thing you want to make it.
> linuxhippi ,youre not bringing any scientific based
> conlusions, only leting your mouth talk without any
> brain involved at all, so please shutup !
Sorry but it seems you just can't cope with some criticism which is some form of uneducation or lack of intelligence. Just the way you express yourself says everything :-/
In fact I did not even criticise you I just mentioned:
- That this a classical micro-benchmark. Thats simply true, sorry.
- That the impact on tuning such statements is negligible under most conditions.
- That the runtime circumstance are maybe not optimal.
Please inform yourself a bit better before you start flaming against others or read posts more carefully (or learn readin??).
lg Clemens
you talk about 15000 calls before hotspot compiles from OSR ?.
so why do you ignore the fact that i gave figures based on 10x 500000 calls for the method ?. and inside that call is 500 calls for the iteration / get.
so why are you mumbeling about your 15000 ?.
youre clearly just talking rubish without even bathered to test out for your self in a decent way.
its still *VERY* obvious that you have not done this testing by yourself.
the fact still remains as i originally stated.
factor 2 or slower.
and if you had checked what actually happens you would noticed that when hotspot bug kicks in the slowdown is 50% for the get version and the generic one is speed up some.
still with with this 50% slowdown for the get()versions its a factor of 2.
you can see this here in the output from a longer test:
ns/iter: 2.46 12.42 1.93 ret:284500
ns/iter: 2.46 12.96 1.93 ret:284500
ns/iter: 367.79 58.46 1.89 ret:284500
ns/iter: 3.32 7.98 1.87 ret:284500
ns/iter: 3.32 7.93 1.87 ret:284500
get() version goes from 2.45 -> 3.32 ns/iter. nice eh !
generic iter goes from 12.5 -> 8 still the now crippled get() is more then 2 times faster.
and now we have done more then 5 million calls a 500 get/iters.
or you mean doing 5 million a 500 iterate/get is not enough ?. please stop joking.
and actually you have no right to state that this slowdown is of no concern.
i that kind of thinking was used everywhere , it would be generall slowdown of factor 2 or more.
youre a person who only like your own theoretical talk without checking any facts at all. nice work man !
Sorry for beeing such an idiot, I know what you say is right, what you think is right and what you consider as important or significant is important or significant.
Because of your whisdome and your glory you'll show me the way to the one and only light.
lg Clemens
PS: Would be great if you could stop flaming and shouting like a 6 years old. You just generate traffic and disqualify yourself.
> i that kind of thinking was used everywhere , it would be generall slowdown of factor 2 or more.
seems you just don't get it?
Developing this way is ... well ... normal. In almost any case a few cycles could be saved but the big question is wether its worth in terms of investment or not.
the qeustion is not about a few cycles,
its about a relative slowdown of several 100% percent.
thats wrong direction in development imo =).
if you extrapolate that kind of thinking, it is perfectly ok to make everything that much slower.
or where should the limit be drawn ?
doing 1% of the functionallity in java alot slower or 100% of it ?. or how about none ?.
or its you are uncapable of understanding this ?.
and youre correct i have exactly 0 respect for people like you.
> the qeustion is not about a few cycles,
> its about a relative slowdown of several 100%
> percent.
Which are still just a few cycles.
> and youre correct i have exactly 0 respect for people
> like you.
Although I never assumed or implied that, do you really think I care about it? *laughing*
With -server on b86, I get around 20% difference. Room for improvement, but not that bad for a loop that essentially does nothing. Where it does matter, you can always drop back to arrays.
So that we can compare the same thing:
import java.util.List;
class EnhancedForSpeed {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final int num = 500;
for (int ct=0; ct
for (int run=0; run<3; ++run) {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
int sum = loop(list);
long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println((end-start)+" ms. Sum: "+sum);
private static int loop(List
int total = 0;
for (int i=0; i<1000*1000; ++i) {
total += fn(list);
return total;
private static int fn(List
int a = 0;
for (String s : list) {
a += s.length();
int num = list.size();
for (int i=0; i
return a;
declaring list in Main and passing as argument to private static method ? =)
heres my result of my tests confirmed by others:
arraysize 100 and rep 100 gives a factor 4 in difference.
arraysize 500 and rep 500000 gives a factor 2 in difference.
heres a simple test:
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Main {
private ArrayList
private String[] array = new String[500];
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Main();
public Main() {
for (int i=0;i
int rep=500000;
for (int a=0;a<10;a++){ // you can try to move the order of ntest and gentest around if wanted. the result is the same.
int ret=0;
long t1= System.nanoTime();
for (int i=0;i
long ta= (System.nanoTime()-t1)*100/(rep*list.size());
t1= System.nanoTime();
for (int i=0;i
long tb= (System.nanoTime()-t1)*100/(rep*list.size());
t1= System.nanoTime();
for (int i=0;i
long tc= (System.nanoTime()-t1)*100/(rep*list.size());
System.out.println("ns/iter: "+ta/100.0+" "+tb/100.0+" "+tc/100.0+" ret:"+ret ); // ret is just here so we use it externally at all.
private int gentest(){
int a=0;
for (String s:list)
return a;
private int ntest(){
int a=0;
int size=list.size();
for (int i=0;i
return a;
private int arraytest(){
int a=0;
for (int i=array.length-1;i>0;i--)
return a;
First of all your benchmark is a classical micro-benchmark.
You'll just trigger OSR compilation for some methods, others will stay interpreted.
So the foreach-loops are 2-4x slower than direct access, which is, well not that bad. Sure there's room for improvements but keep in mind this are very small loops, where most time is spent in the loop itself.
These should be considered as a typical micro-optimization which should only lead to minimalistic overall improvements.
Furthermore did you use the java server compiler.
lg Clemens
linuxhippy ,on all yout statements, that is not the case:
you can see that for your self by leting the jvm output
both inlining , compile events for methods during runtime.
you can also see the compiled code produced in runtime if you want to.
you will se that there is no unfair treatment of either test case from the jvm/hotspot.
you did not notice the main loop that iterates 10 times over the entire test sequence ?
you get a performance comparison output from each iteration.
and my coment regardin that you can move the calling sequences around, the performance factors will stay terrible.
and the case is that if you incease the repeatment too much, the current hotspot compiler bugg regarding second compilation time will kick in and make ALL methods we are benchmarking several times slower.
again thats no unfair treatment.
but thats an bug that is in progress status.
i see no reason to enforce that bug here, since that is a different matter and its being fixed.
and how can you state that "some ar interpreted".
that statement shows that you have not even run these tests for your self trying to figure it out.
you would noticed that there are no performance increase for any of the methods we benchmark by increasing any loop counter of the several that exists.
only thing that happens is the slowdown that the bug i explained earlier kicks in.
what youre saying in your post linuxhippy shows that you have not even read my posts.so how can youjudge it ?
ive allready stated that i use jdk1.6b86 -server
so why ask about it ?.
linuxhippi ,youre not bringing any scientific based conlusions, only leting your mouth talk without any brain involved at all, so please shutup !
this is the compiler bug im talking about.
well the point is that its the officially recomended way of doing it that is so slow.
so thats how all new people learn to do from the tutorials etc.
thats exactly what we dont need, new fluffy stuff that boggs down the performance.
specially if the case is that it wont get fixed ?.
if it was a 5% or so it could *maybe* be overseen.
but a factor of 3-4 is not tollerable.
> ArrayList
> ArrayList
> ...
> int a=0;
> for (String s:list)
> a+=s.length();
this one use an Iterator so basically two
methods call by loop increment (hasNext, next())
+ failfast incrementation.
> why is the code below a factor 3 faster ?
> int a=0;
> int size=list.size();
> for (int i=0;i
only one call but with a range check
and this one is more faster :
String[] array=new String[500];
for (String s:array)
> (putting list.size() in the for() does no or minimal
> difference).
> nomatter where in a program scope , microbench or not
> i
> get about factor 3 with nanotime().
> jdk1.6b86 -server , same problem on at least both
> 64,32bit JDK and windows. (using a single AMD cpu)
see bug 6348767
> regards
> gustav
Rémi Forax