Quick tricks: Counter-based bools

alessandro.tironi7@gmail.com (Alessandro Tironi) — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:30:00 +0100

After some years of game programmer, I suddenly found myself implementing a specific static functions and data structs basically every time I start a new project: a sort of a general purpose library I update and increment at every project and that I take with me to the next one, to avoid reimplementing the same stuff over and over again. Counter-based bools are an example of such implementations. This post might seem like an over-conceptualization of a very common programming technique, but I believe that sometimes it’s useful to stop one minute and think about the utility of the tools we end up implementing, in terms of optimal use cases and performances.

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Quick tricks: Counter-based bools