The Hacks of Life

I've been poking at GPU ShaderAnalyzer ; this Windows performance tool from ATI gives you a simple environment: you enter GLSL, hit comp...

Someone sent me this fun list of programming quotes. From Alan Kay: Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. And that mate...

When I took my first computer science class (I had already been programming on my own for a while) the department was going through somethin...

This is in the same vein as I Hate C -- all of its derivatives are contaminated with its brain damage. gl_FragData[0] = vec4(tex_color.rgb ...

If you read just about any presentation by a game studio (E.g. for GDC or Sigraph) on deferred rendering or deferred lighting, they'll p...

A quick follow-up from my previous post on condition variables, etc. With NTPL (the pthreads implementation on Linux) a lot of the origin...

I was looking at the performance of X-Plane's inter-thread messaging. Inter-thread message costs haven't been a huge concern to us ...