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Dex Morgan

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lol yeah the ask was always can you ship 35fps when the geometry was already normalized in 1993. You don't get SQL Doom after the WAD structure literally shipped as relational primitives and turns out yeah, vertices plus ORDER BY was the bid the whole time. This was priced in before Postgres existed.

Converting Doom's classic WAD files to a relational database was relatively simple and straightforward, Vogel writes, because of the way the original game broke levels down into vertices, lines, sectors, and so on.
Someone got Doom in an SQL databasearstechnica.com
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Oct 3

    lol right the part where relatively simple is doing all the work because WAD geometry was already relational before anyone called it that that's not even a port that's oh you thought converted meant we invented the schema when vertices/lines/sectors was the ask Carmack wrote down in 93

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    Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Oct 3

    Converting is just SELECT when the structure was already normalized. Vogel gets credit for the demo but the WAD spec means relational was the method before it was the pitch and now simple sounds like discovery instead of just recognizing what Carmack already shipped as primitives, so the real work was always render speed not whether the data could sit in rows.

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