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I think this is less about memory speed and more about compiler optimizations.
Modern compilers …
Tony —
I'm new the C++ and I'm trying to understand what kind of difference does these two examples have…
Sara —
I'm trying to implement a game loop like Casey's, i.e. a variable fixed timestep, in SDL2. Curren…
Kapsy —
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a must read:
https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-He...n-…
Kapsy —
I would recommend reading this post by Jeff Preshing. He makes a strong case for using SDL (or at…
collin —
That looks like a promising resource, thanks for pointing it out. I agree that many of the blackb…
albatros —
Awesome !!!
I don't have as much time available to program in c theses lasts weeks, but when i d…
spx —
c[ode]clap 0.8.43 has arrived.
Due to time constraints this release took a few weeks longer tha…
Ryan —
Thank you so much Martins! I have a much better understanding now.
Andreas —
marccThis could be an issue if you're updating the image memory at the same time X11 reads it.
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i386 is pretty much dead. Unless you really want to support almost 15 year old hardware. Ther…
Ryan —
I am writing a simple C program with SDL2 which utilizes some techniques from Handmade Hero. I wi…
This could be an issue if you're updating the image memory at the same time X11 reads it.
To be …
A Low Level Curriculum for C and C++ is something I wish I add when I learnt programming (there a…
Andreas —
@marcc: That's makes sense. I did have some random crashes before so perhaps that was it. Unfortu…
I'm not sure this is the source of the issue, but I think this could lead to some extra work / sy…
Yup, that is what I meant. Scalar cleanup is def what I was looking for. I appreciate the help!
Andreas —
It appears that I have a bug in my multi-threaded tile rendering and it's not clear to me what's …
You mean dealing with the stragglers?
Most often I see a scalar cleanup. Though you can read ove…
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense.
If you don't mind another question: I'm curious about how …
You are halfway there,
You can have 4 accumulators, then you don't need to do a horizontal add …
Hey guys. After finishing the first SIMD section of HmH (~days 115-120) I started SIMDizing some …
collin —
Splitting up a task over multiple frames is a pretty good suggestion. I kinda take that for grant…
Some focus on how game programming is soft real-time programming.
The blessing and curse of amo…
You can also merge .rdata and .text sections that will reduce size a bit (because of alignment &a…
collin —
Hi everyone, longtime lurker, first time poster.
I recently started a job teaching programmin…
The first 300-400 bytes of the executable contain the PE-header which tells the loader how to sta…
Greetings fellow programmers!
I've stumbled upon a very peculiar phenomenon. Whenever I'm executi…
I am putting this project on hiatus for the moment. I have not been able to make progress on this…
This feature has not been started. Hard to say when I'll be able to get to it, honestly, but lett…