For those who are interested in the process of construction of a math library, or perhaps are interested in other people’s opinions on how such a library would be constructed, or perhaps would like to share your own opinions on such a library… er, I’ll start again.<\/p>\n
In the sweng-gamedev<\/a> mailing list, Noel Llopis started up a thread<\/a> regarding the creation of a industry-wide standard math library. This has led to a very long discussion of such a library, and the creation of a wiki page<\/a>. As of yet I don’t have much of an opinion on this other than the discussion is extremely verbose and so I can’t keep up with it all. However, someone out there might, and so I share its existence with you all.<\/p>\n Some of this may meander into the next edition of the book, particularly the management of SIMD operations which is something I’m dealing with in my company’s library. However, I can say for certain that there will not be a separate Point class in the book’s library, because a) it’s simpler to manage and b) I trust people not to do dumb things with Vectors when they’re actually Points. This may be a foolish assumption on my part.<\/p>\n