The Hacks of Life

Periodically people will try to sum up relative latencies for hardware, but I really like this article . In particular, putting memory dist...

This is a short summary of FSAA techniques, both for the art team, and so I don't forget what I've read when I come back to this in ...

Awesome quote from the Java Language Spec : In the absence of explicit synchronization, an implementation is free to update the main memory...

Makes you write code like this... if ((ent = dynamic_cast (what)) && ent->GetGISClass() == gis_Composite) true; At least C++ isn...

A quick stat on instancing performance. There are a lot of OpenGL posts with developers posting their instancing performance numbers, and o...

I'm debugging X-Plane's autogen engine. In debug mode, with no inlining, optimizations, and a pile of safety checks, the autogen en...

This quote from NVidia's GPU Programming Guide amused me: There are many techniques available. However, the general recommendation is ...