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I have decided to post this complaint here because i'm concerned about the direction that chat mo…
Oh wow, this is great!
I just tried it on osx for my game project (which does a similar shared l…
Raymond Chen has an answer. Pretty deep legacy stuff...
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread - particularly Casey for his long detailed resp…
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That's interesting, maybe even more so the way you investigate things, thanks. :)
Yeah. That was my recollection. I'm not sure I know why that happens - it might have something …
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Since the beginning of Handmade Hero, I've been modifying my platform code little by little to ac…
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Pseudonym, I do not think you are hallucinating here - I think it's just that GetSystemInfo() ret…
rathersleepy It is true that pre-C++11 on the Visual Studio compiler, volatile provided both atom…
Here are the relevant sections of the C++11 standard, page 145:
[ Note: volatile is a hint to t…
Hi Casey,
It is true that pre-C++11 on the Visual Studio compiler, volatile provided both atomic…
I was able to set up CLion to debug an external executable without much trouble. I've written abo…
The truth is not actually somewhere in between. The people who think "volatile" has something to…
Volatile appears to still has the same role as I've always thought it has, to tell the compiler "…
[note - I went a little overboard citing sources but I had fun researching this so I left them in…
@Kladdehelvete - You clearly don't understand hyperthreading. Hyperthreading is about using under…
noxy_key —
Another approach would be to simply split a string of SIMD operations into two approximately-same…
I don't think there's anything that surprising about the results - you're just bound by available…
mmozeiko Kladdehelvete, did you read all the text I posted or just the first sentence?
MMozeiko:…
Allan Bowhill It totally makes sense that if Hyperthreads were used this way, they would have to …
mmozeiko 4096 on Windows 8.1 64-bit (16GB total memory, if that changes anything).
And also 4096 …
noxy_key —
OK, I see now. You're talking about the underlying contention for hardware resources between hard…
Pseudonym73 Can someone call GetSystemInfo() and check please?
4096 on Windows 8.1 64-bit (16GB …
My suspicion is that choice of 4k/64k/2mb (Windows also allows 2mb pages nowadays) as a page size…
Yes, to be more specific, I am talking about "free" access to thread local storage. Every platfo…
Allan Bowhill Also, what is IACA?
https://software.intel.com/en-us/.../intel-architecture-code-an…
The problem is not the register file, it's the work units. For example, the CPU that we're using…
noxy_key —
I was under the impression there was more than 1 SIMD register set you could work with. If you co…