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AndrewJDR
I was able to set up CLion to debug an external executable without much trouble. I've written abo…
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Casey Muratori
The truth is not actually somewhere in between. The people who think "volatile" has something to…
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Jari Komppa
Volatile appears to still has the same role as I've always thought it has, to tell the compiler "…
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Patrick Lahey
[note - I went a little overboard citing sources but I had fun researching this so I left them in…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
@Kladdehelvete - You clearly don't understand hyperthreading. Hyperthreading is about using under…
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noxy_key
Another approach would be to simply split a string of SIMD operations into two approximately-same…
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Ossi Waenerberg
I don't think there's anything that surprising about the results - you're just bound by available…
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Livet Ersomen Strøm
mmozeiko Kladdehelvete, did you read all the text I posted or just the first sentence? MMozeiko:…
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Jari Komppa
Allan Bowhill It totally makes sense that if Hyperthreads were used this way, they would have to …
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Andrew Bromage
mmozeiko 4096 on Windows 8.1 64-bit (16GB total memory, if that changes anything). And also 4096 …
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noxy_key
OK, I see now. You're talking about the underlying contention for hardware resources between hard…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
Pseudonym73 Can someone call GetSystemInfo() and check please? 4096 on Windows 8.1 64-bit (16GB …
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Casey Muratori
My suspicion is that choice of 4k/64k/2mb (Windows also allows 2mb pages nowadays) as a page size…
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Casey Muratori
Yes, to be more specific, I am talking about "free" access to thread local storage. Every platfo…
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Casey Muratori
Allan Bowhill Also, what is IACA? https://software.intel.com/en-us/.../intel-architecture-code-an…
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Casey Muratori
The problem is not the register file, it's the work units. For example, the CPU that we're using…
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noxy_key
I was under the impression there was more than 1 SIMD register set you could work with. If you co…
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Andrew Bromage
mmozeiko You have working TLS also on Linux, OSX, Android and iOS by using pthread_key_t. You mig…
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Andrew Bromage
mmozeiko VirtualAlloc will return memory that begins on page boundary (typically 4KB). I don't ha…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
Decrementing semaphore happens only on WaitForsingleObject function call. If InterlockedCompareEx…
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elle
Yes, I understand, but if a thread fails to get an entry, now, it will also decrement the semapho…
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Luiz Heringer
Hey guys, I figured it out. For those who got the same bug. On the GameOutputSound function, I wa…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
But as far as I understand, that means that when multiple threads start the same entry simultane…
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Matthew Carr
[quote=elle]Right now in the doNextWorkQueueEntry function, we first check if nextEntry < entr…
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elle
Right now in the doNextWorkQueueEntry function, we first check if nextEntry < entryCount and i…
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Jari Komppa
You're right of course. If the hardware resource doing SIMD operation X is busy, the other hypert…
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Miguel Lechón
I started following HMH back in December and my coding style has been rapidly mutating towards Ca…
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Mārtiņš Možeiko
This is very cool. I wish Sony would open Native SDK for Vita for everybody, not just the managed…
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Casey Muratori
You can look at this a lot like the port pressure stuff we were doing with IACA. With HyperThrea…
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Casey Muratori
Hah! Awesome!! - Casey
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