assets/developer-notes/stephanie-gawroriski/2015/01/23.mkd
# 2015/01/23
***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._
## 11:28
Using Java 8 my byte code translator code just got much much simple because I
can use method references for the decoding of opcodes so I do not need a
gigantic switch, just a gigantic map.
## 11:49
In JavaByteOp instead of all of these Vas I can use smarter lambdas to inject
the stuff as needed.
## 12:06
Such a thing would also remove the massive and confusing push/pop null padded
tables, which is really confusing to look at manuall and to even read.
## 15:46
Using secondary tracers will make tracing while tracing work.
## 20:28
When I wrote the megatile adjacency code I put in the cardinal directions so I
really just need NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, and WEST.
## 21:44
Code looks good, but I get a NullPointerException where a lambda is and it
should not be occuring.
## 21:46
I know why, I expect a return value of boolean but I return null instead so it
cannot be cast to a boolean.
## 22:51
Brute forcing massive spawning at the start locations, just make it crammed
full of units.