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

eshelman

Latency Comparison Numbers
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L1 cache reference/hit                       1.5 ns                      4 cycles
Floating-point add/mult/FMA operation        1.5 ns                      4 cycles
L2 cache reference/hit                       5   ns                      12 ~ 17 cycles
Branch mispredict                            6   ns                      15 ~ 20 cycles
L3 cache hit (unshared cache line)          16   ns                      42 cycles
L3 cache hit (shared line in another core)  25   ns                      65 cycles
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
L3 cache hit (modified in another core)     29   ns                      75 cycles

robrich

the definitive deep dive into the .git folder

Thanks for joining us for "the definitive deep dive into the .git folder". It's an incredible live-demo where we open every file in the .git folder and show what it does.

Links

Here's the links we saw:

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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mbinna

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

nadavrot

High-Performance Matrix Multiplication

This is a short post that explains how to write a high-performance matrix multiplication program on modern processors. In this tutorial I will use a single core of the Skylake-client CPU with AVX2, but the principles in this post also apply to other processors with different instruction sets (such as AVX512).

Intro

Matrix multiplication is a mathematical operation that defines the product of

shafik

What is the Strict Aliasing Rule and Why do we care?

(OR Type Punning, Undefined Behavior and Alignment, Oh My!)

What is strict aliasing? First we will describe what is aliasing and then we can learn what being strict about it means.

In C and C++ aliasing has to do with what expression types we are allowed to access stored values through. In both C and C++ the standard specifies which expression types are allowed to alias which types. The compiler and optimizer are allowed to assume we follow the aliasing rules strictly, hence the term strict aliasing rule. If we attempt to access a value using a type not allowed it is classified as undefined behavior(UB). Once we have undefined behavior all bets are off, the results of our program are no longer reliable.

Unfortunately with strict aliasing violations, we will often obtain the results we expect, leaving the possibility the a future version of a compiler with a new optimization will break code we th

denji

Moved to git-repository: https://github.com/denji/awesome-http-benchmark

Tools

Located in alphabetical order (not prefer)

• ab – slow and single threaded, written in C
• apib – most of the features of ApacheBench (ab), also designed as a more modern replacement, written in C
• autocannon – fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js
• baloo – Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy, written in Go (golang)

x0nu11byt3

ELF Format Cheatsheet

Introduction

Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), is the default binary format on Linux-based systems.

Compilation