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Strategy Game Collaboration

Name: =+=*=F=R=O=Z=E=N==V=O=I=D=*=+= !frozEn/KIg 2009-07-19 0:46

Experimental RTS/Space sim Collaborative Coding Project.
The goal is to design a game with structure/settings/balance of Starcraft and scale of Eve Online(i.e. huge space battles, space empires,etc).
Though this wouldn't stop anyone from contributing code/feedback/criticism, i'll be coordinating the project.
All code/ideas should be posted in this and subsequent threads which i'll start as needed.
step #1: We will collaboratively create a name for our project.
Each suggestion must explain why this name fits the project and why its better then any other generic name.

Name: =+=*=F=R=O=Z=E=N==V=O=I=D=*=+= !frozEn/KIg 2009-07-22 15:41

>>484 UPX is just a self-extracting archive which extracts to memory.
It has nothing to do with VM,Runtimes,JIT or anything mentioned(its like a prog.exe.zip which loads into memory as prog.exe).
 

Decompression

UPX supports two mechanisms for decompression - an in-place technique and extraction to temporary file.

The in-place technique, which decompresses the executable into memory, is not possible on all supported platforms. The rest use extraction to temporary file. This procedure involves additional overhead and other disadvantages; however, it allows any executable file format to be packed. The executable is extracted to a temporary location, and then open() is used to obtain a file descriptor.

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Compiler: A program which produces executables.
Runtime:A program which loads another program as top execution layer
Virtual machine:A program which executes bytecode
Interpreter:A Virtual Machine which runs scripts
JIT:A program which runs scripts and temporary compiles them into memory
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