RiotTony

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   by RiotTony 11y ago

   I think that the Identification and iteration stages can be automated, but the comprehension stage is still a while off. No compiler is going to understand more about the what the context of the program is than a human. For example, knowing
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   by RiotTony 11y ago

   You could , but I doubt it would have much of an effect on performance. Modern CPUs are ridiculously good at looking ahead and executing paths pre-emptively, meaning that branching is far less of an issue. On the older consoles, branching
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   by RiotTony 11y ago

   Because we are interpolating between keys which aren't evenly distributed in time. What you have there is pretty much what we do when looking up the precomputed values from the table.
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   by RiotTony 11y ago

   Xperf or WPA is an excellent tool for holistically analysing your application (and all the other applications running on your machine at the same time). We do use that tool for looking at lots of different things: file IO, thread contention
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   by RiotTony 11y ago

   Waffles is more than just a profiler. It is a nice, high level interface into our (non-public) debugging API. You are correct that the profiling info there is real-time, while Chrome is post. They all use the same buffers, but just interpre
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   by RiotTony 11y ago

   Hey everyone, I'm the author of this article and I'm glad you've found it interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, so if you have any questions or comments I'll address them as soon as I can. I can al