The Hacks of Life

In my previous post , I made the claim that really high performance software is designed to be high performance, and that a two-step proces...

Sigh...this is what I get for pretending to do work when I could have been writing blog posts and changing my blogger theme a few dozen tim...

Now that we've shipped X-Plane 10 Mobile,  I can blog the occasional OpenGL ES performance note without revealing a stealth project. ...

I found this in a GIT man page.  (Emphasis added by me.) union Run 3-way file level merge for text files, but take lines from ...

I just finished fixing a long-running bug in BrickSmith 's culling code; this post is a review of ways to do mouse testing of a 3-d mod...

I have been pushing for a formal level-of-detail scheme for LDraw; the performance problem is that LDraw bricks contain a fairly high verte...

First, a bunch of disclaimers: I do not know how the PowerVR SGX hardware really works, I do not have access to either the Apple OpenGL sou...