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It's always a judgement call and it depends a lot on the target platform. If we do want to port to…
Judging by the log you posted, I would suspect that the lock file fixes it.Casey
I think the reason is that all the calculations happens on the float, that is twice as fast as dou…
I haven't got to the lock file yet. I'll power through and see what happens. Thanks.
Have you started using the lock file yet? In later episodes we use a lock file to ensure that the…
Including %random% in the -PDB option results in the same behaviour. And as far I can see my build…
Pent —
I'm using VS2015 and it seems to work fine for me. Make sure your build.bat is correct!
I'm not aware of anything that would prevent dll reloading to work in VS2015. Afaik it should work…
Hello, Enjoying the series so far, early days though. It's been good going up until today. I just …
In my experience, thread affinity masking is pretty safe to ship in game code. YMMV, of course...…
Yes, your concerns for shipping code are valid. You could first get which thread is running on and…
Ok so I used SetThreadAffinityMask to limit my thread to only one core and now the results of rdts…
My cpu is Haswell i7-5930k. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try some of these things and see what…
There are a few oddities in TSC that can depend on your CPU architecture and also whether you have…
I also saw some inconsistencies with my CPU (even negative timespans B) ). What helped me was to …
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me understand this. I'm using __rdtsc to profile my game …
Brad B —
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 for the project. Just had this old version in the archives.
Wow that really is old school! The oldest version I would go would have been VC6 but VC1.52 is som…
Brad B —
I am enjoying this series that Casey has done. Takes me back to the old days. I haven't programmed…
Thanks guys for your detailed response I guess I need to see how Casey implemented it first on tha…
Have you guys heard of voltron? It's not exactly a debugger but it lets you create views of gdb/l…
co.nl.on —
On Day 32 and I must have missed this... is there a particular reason that Casey uses an int32+flo…
Hmm. I think I misread the post. I thought the idea was to mimic a game loop that uses PeekMessage…
Why would you want non-empty event queue, if you are writing text editor? Empty queue makes proces…
OK so I thought that was this weekend. Turns out it's next weekend. Sorry for announcing it wron…
I'm sure this has been mentioned some place or forum but I've never found it. You can create your …
Yep, everything that @mmozeiko said. The only thing I'll add is the in the typically event-driven …
Yes, in current state all functions (except dll exported) can be static or inline. If some are not…
bimbinel —
I see, thanks for that. Why are some functions non static though? Shouldn't every function in the …
If you don't mark function static then compiler needs to put it in special symbol table for linker…