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by xgkickt 3y ago
AKA “Cache is King”. (edit) Terje Mathisen's "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" is often quoted amongst game developers, as it rings true with how we use hardware and pre-calculation of data.
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by xgkickt 3y ago
I know a lead who uses their vacation to be able to work from home with a week free of scheduled meetings.
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by xgkickt 3y ago
Are Clang’s builtin types interoperable with __m128 intrinsics?
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Or HLSL. Can use ISPC as an intermediary language.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Register renaming. Stack references are more likely to be in the register file.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Possibly due to this, from what I’ve seen, compiler engineers tend to be in-house working on vendor tools, at the big engine companies, or working on script systems.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
For both productivity and practical reasons (the game still has to be somewhat playable), the use of pragmas to disable optimizations for the file/function of interest is generally recommended over a full debug build.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Can't even bike safely in the summer in my smallish city in Canada. No bike paths, with roads that keep getting wider with increased speeds, such that the city recommends riding on the sidewalk, and then you are supposed to dismount to
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Plus with PSP and Vita they had second screen, remote play, output to TV, OLED. A similar journey that Nintendo have taken with the Switch.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Sturgeon’s law will probably end up at 99%
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by xgkickt 4y ago
I suspect there's a minimum time to order so that people are waiting to order rather than waiting for their food, so the kitchen doesn't get overrun.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
She likes to point to the cardboard cutout or box on the shelf and tell the shop assistant that “my son made that”.
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by xgkickt 4y ago
Whenever I have a crisis of confidence at work I remember the time I overheard being labeled an ‘Idiot Savant’ and just accept they keep me around for some reason I’ll never fathom.
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by xgkickt 5y ago
I've worked with people a bit like that.
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by xgkickt 5y ago
Grayscale is easier to composite than color so if the lighting is off in one layer it isn't as noticeable or can easily be compensated for. Shots can be matched up with a common tone. I had also wondered if streaming was driving some o
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by xgkickt 5y ago
There was a rumor that in the UK SEGA pretty much spent their entire Dreamcast marketing budget on the Arsenal sponsorship. Would like to know how close to the truth that was.
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by xgkickt 5y ago
Although the PlayStation 2 had the brute force, from this programmer's perspective the Dreamcast had a certain finesse, largely due to the PowerVR GPU. SEGA's teams were also on a strong creative streak at the time too. Such a sha
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by xgkickt 5y ago
>GPUs, even the primitive PSX one, will draw many in a single CPU cycle. I can't find information on the PSX GPU fill rate but I'm sure it's faster than 1 pixel per CPU cycle. Two pixels per cycle for flat shaded or rectan
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by xgkickt 5y ago
The most obvious one I can think of is triangle strips and MIPmaps. The 60fps demo that came with Ridge Racer Type 4 had MIPmaps. I made an internal "cel-shading" tech demo back in 1998, tracking the polygon edges and then using l
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by xgkickt 5y ago
The GTE truncated too early, and in too many places and there is a register for adding a fraction to the post-perspective-pre-truncate result to round instead. I didn't implement this back in the day, but thought about scaling the targ
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by xgkickt 5y ago
I used dcbz extensively back on the Wii.
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by xgkickt 5y ago
When diamond semiconductors get to sufficient transistor counts, I wish for an 80GHz 6502 demonstration device.
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by xgkickt 5y ago
"The irony is that of all people the leaker to whom Apple no longer wanted to pass on information was the first to bring information of these drastic measures to the public" If Apple made this up in order to find the leaker, sound
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by xgkickt 6y ago
Because it's going to be a long night debugging the [bleep] build and I just want to eat some of this pizza.