Crashworks

Seattle, WA

assemblyrequired.crashworks.org

I program video games. That's kind of like embedded systems programming, only with more artists, and each function has a budget in microseconds.

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How bad is “if (!this)” in a C++ member function?

c++ visual-c++ gcc asked Jan 12 '12 at 21:52

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Why is SSE scalar sqrt(x) slower than rsqrt(x) * x?

performance assembly floating-point x86 sse asked Oct 6 '09 at 23:45

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33 votes

How can dev teams prevent slow performance in consumer apps?

performance ui asked Sep 28 '11 at 20:18

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24 votes

Can GCC be coerced to generate efficient constructors for memory-aligned objects?

c++ performance gcc x86 asked Jan 17 '12 at 12:35

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What causes bad performance in consumer apps?

performance asked Jun 21 '11 at 23:37

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13 votes

Making Doxygen read double-slash C++ comments as markup

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Can std::function be move-constructed from rvalue reference to a temporary functor object?

c++ c++11 std rvalue-reference asked yesterday

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GDB: Listing all mapped memory regions for a crashed process

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Is there a compile-time func/macro to determine if a C++0x struct is POD?

c++ typetraits static-assert c++11 asked Aug 24 '11 at 0:32

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8 votes

Emulating variable bit-shift using only constant shifts?

c performance assembly bit-manipulation powerpc asked Feb 12 '09 at 3:09

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Performance optimization strategies of last resort

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How is C# inspired by C++ more than by Java?

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Virtual functions and performance - C++

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C++ pointer assignment

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How much assembly is really used in modern game code?

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Thou shalt not inherit from std::vector

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If vs. Switch Speed

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vector or map, which one to use?

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John Carmack's Unusual Fast Inverse Square Root (Quake III)

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What does programming for PS3's Cell Processor entail?

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What can human beings make out of the restrict qualifier?

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Memory Allocation/Deallocation Bottleneck?

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Fastest way to count number of bit transitions in an unsigned int

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What is the best way to explain bit manipulation to the students?

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When can you omit the file extension in an #include directive?

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Will optimizing code become unnecessary?

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Sprites in game programming, multiple files vs one “texture”?

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Java: Double Value Comparison

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