rain-1

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

mmozeiko

This downloads standalone MSVC compiler, linker & other tools, also headers/libraries from Windows SDK into portable folder, without installing Visual Studio. Has bare minimum components - no UWP/Store/WindowsRT stuff, just files & tools for native desktop app development.

Run py.exe portable-msvc.py and it will download output into msvc folder. By default it will download latest available MSVC & Windows SDK - currently v14.40.33807 and v10.0.26100.0.

You can list available versions with py.exe portable-msvc.py --show-versions and then pass versions you want with --msvc-version and --sdk-version arguments.

To use cl.exe/link.exe first run setup_TARGET.bat - after that PATH/INCLUDE/LIB env variables will be updated to use all the tools as usual. You can also use clang-cl.exe with these includes & libraries.

To use clang-cl.exe without running setup.bat, pass extra /winsysroot msvc argument (msvc is folder name where output is stored).

mmozeiko

// clang.exe -Os -nostdlib -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,-fixed,-subsystem:console FlushFileCache.c -o FlushFileCache.exe

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>

#pragma comment (lib, "kernel32.lib")
#pragma comment (lib, "advapi32.lib")

#define error(str) do { DWORD written; WriteFile(GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE), str, sizeof(str)-1, &written, NULL); } while (0)

mmozeiko

//

struct TerminalCell
{
    // cell index into GlyphTexture, should be two 16-bit (x,y) values packed: "x | (y << 16)"
    uint GlyphIndex;

    // 0xAABBGGRR encoded colors, nonzero alpha for Foreground indicates to render colored-glyph
    // which means use RGB values from GlyphTexture directly as output, not as  ClearType blending weights
    uint Foreground;

mmozeiko

// example how to set up D3D11 rendering on Windows in C

#define COBJMACROS
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <d3d11.h>
#include <dxgi1_3.h>
#include <d3dcompiler.h>
#include <dxgidebug.h>

mmozeiko

// this code will work only when compiled as 64-bit code, and on Windows 10
// older Windows version might require different structure definitions

#define NOMINMAX
#define INITGUID
#include <windows.h>
#include <evntrace.h>
#include <evntcons.h>

#pragma comment (lib, "shell32.lib")

ityonemo

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

mmozeiko

#define COBJMACROS
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <mfapi.h>
#include <mfidl.h>
#include <mfreadwrite.h>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <intrin.h>

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES