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

jFransham

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Contents:

• Number one optimization tip: don't
• Never optimize blindly
• Don't bother optimizing one-time costs
• Improve your algorithms
• CPU architecture primer
• Keep as much as possible in cache
• Keep as much as possible in registers

mrkgnao

{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards, Arrows #-}

import Numeric
import Data.Char

import Control.Monad
import Data.Monoid ((<>))
import Data.List (nub, sort, reverse)

data RepeatBounds = RB

carloscm

; -> ->> -<> -<>> for S7 Scheme
; inspired by https://github.com/nightfly19/cl-arrows and https://github.com/rplevy/swiss-arrows

(require stuff.scm)
; using: any? while
; replace those with your favorite scheme alternatives

; direct translation from https://github.com/nightfly19/cl-arrows
(define (arrow-proto handler initial-form forms)
  (let ((output-form initial-form)

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