jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2013 - Performance Optimization Guidelines and the GPU Architecture behind them
• 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

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

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](https:

urraka

#define STB_IMAGE_IMPLEMENTATION
#define STB_IMAGE_WRITE_IMPLEMENTATION
#define STBI_ONLY_PNG
#define STBI_ONLY_JPEG
#define STBI_ONLY_BMP
#define STBI_ONLY_GIF

#include "stb_image.h"
#include "stb_image_write.h"

xavierfoucrier

GPG signing –

Here is a short guide that will help you setup your environment to create signed commits or signed tags with Git locally. This has been extensively tested on Windows with Git and the Github Desktop application: I use it every day for my professional development projects.

I you face any issue, feel free to leave a comment below.

Summary

1. Sign commits or tags
2. Key passphrase
3. Disable signatures
4. Renew a GPG key

jspohr

// Taken from the Rust code base: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/3809bbf47c8557bd149b3e52ceb47434ca8378d5/src/libstd/sys_common/mod.rs#L124
// Computes (value*numer)/denom without overflow, as long as both
// (numer*denom) and the overall result fit into i64 (which is the case
// for our time conversions).
int64_t int64MulDiv(int64_t value, int64_t numer, int64_t denom) {
  int64_t q = value / denom;
  int64_t r = value % denom;
  // Decompose value as (value/denom*denom + value%denom),
  // substitute into (value*numer)/denom and simplify.
  // r < denom, so (denom*numer) is the upper bound of (r*numer)

munificent

#include <time.h> //  Robert Nystrom
#include <stdio.h> // @munificentbob
#include <stdlib.h> //     for Ginny
#define  r return    //    2008-2019
#define  l(a, b, c, d) for (i y=a;y\
<b; y++) for (int x = c; x < d; x++)
typedef int i;const i H=40;const i W
=80;i m[40][80];i g(i x){r rand()%x;
}void cave(i s){i w=g(10)+5;i h=g(6)
+3;i t=g(W-w-2)+1;i u=g(H-h-2)+1;l(u

pixelmager

Use cases

• Bluenoise in the game INSIDE (dithering, raymarching, reflections)
• Dithering, Ray marching, shadows etc
• A Survery of Blue Noise and Its Applications

Textures/Matrices for direct use (data!)

• Moments In Graphics (void-and-cluster)
  • 2D
  • 3D and 4D
• Bart Wronski Implementation of Solid Angle algorithm

kelvinn

REM On Unix you would do this: find ./ -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;
REM After installing dos2unix.exe in Windows, you can create a small bat script with the below in it to
REM recursively change the line endings. Careful if you have any hidden directories (e.g. .git)

for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in ('dir "C:\Users\username\path\to\directory" /s /b') do (
"C:\Program Files\unix2dos.exe" %%a
)

mrcdk

package ;

#if macro
import haxe.macro.Context;
import haxe.macro.Printer;
import haxe.macro.Expr;

class MacroEnum {

	macro public static function buildToString():Array<Field> {