Doom WAD files found on Java

Earlier in the thread I said:

Hmm...maybe I'll make a wad library in CL for kicks...

And here's a partial one I wrote in a couple of hours for the hell of it! Yay for lack of documentation and comments.

It only reads in a WAD file and its data; no writing. I didn't pay attention to good style (let alone Lispiness) or performance (no DECLARE statements or such). But it loads Doom2.wad in about 2.5 seconds on a 2.16 Core 2 Duo laptop with a 5400 rpm drive.

Mista_T said:

Some more words: Sun's JRE is at the point where it is about 1x slower than native code, and kicks the crap out of C in terms of memory de/allocation and stack call performance.

Lies.

Fredrik said:

Lies.

Ick. Well, it still fares better than half of the other languages on the list.

aardappel's wadc code had pretty clean implementations for handling doom data

I downloaded it a few times, and its actually better then it seems. But over all I think I would give it a C-!!!