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2024

Verbosity of coding styles Dec 17, 2024

#blender #code #rant

A year in Blender VSE land Nov 21, 2024

#blender #code #performance

Vector math library codegen in Debug Sep 14, 2024

#blender #code #compilers #performance

More Blender VSE stuff for 4.2 Jul 22, 2024

#blender #code #performance

I accidentally Blender VSE Feb 6, 2024

#blender #code #performance

2023

Gaussian explosion Dec 8, 2023

#rendering #code #gpu

Making Gaussian Splats more smaller Sep 27, 2023

#rendering #code #gpu

Making Gaussian Splats smaller Sep 13, 2023

#rendering #code #gpu

Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool! Sep 5, 2023

#rendering #code #gpu

Float Compression 9: LZSSE and Lizard Apr 18, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 8: Blosc Mar 2, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 7: More Filtering Optimization Mar 1, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 6: Filtering Optimization Feb 18, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 5: Science! Feb 3, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 4: Mesh Optimizer Feb 2, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 3: Filters Feb 1, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 2: Oodleflate Jan 31, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 1: Generic Jan 29, 2023

#code #performance

Float Compression 0: Intro Jan 29, 2023

#code #performance

2022

Swallowing the elephant into Blender Jul 20, 2022

#blender #code #performance

Comparing BCn texture decoders Jun 23, 2022

#code #performance #rendering

Comparing .obj parse libraries May 14, 2022

#blender #code #performance

Speeding up Blender .obj import May 12, 2022

#blender #code #performance

Optimizing Oklab gradients Mar 11, 2022

#code #rendering #performance

Curious lack of sprintf scaling Feb 25, 2022

#code #performance

Speeding up Blender .obj export Feb 3, 2022

#blender #code #performance

2019

Clang Build Analyzer Sep 28, 2019

#code #compilers #devtools #performance

Another cool MSVC flag: /d1reportTime Jan 21, 2019

#code #compilers #devtools #performance

time-trace: timeline / flame chart profiler for Clang Jan 16, 2019

#code #compilers #devtools #performance

Investigating compile times, and Clang -ftime-report Jan 12, 2019

#code #compilers #devtools #rant #performance

2018

"Modern" C++ Lamentations Dec 28, 2018

#code #compilers #rant

C++11 way of initializing integers Dec 20, 2018

#code #rant #performance

Pathtracer 17: WebAssembly Nov 16, 2018

#rendering #code #web

SPIR-V Compression: SMOL vs MARK Oct 31, 2018

#code #vulkan #rendering #rant

Pathtracer 16: Burst SIMD Optimization Oct 29, 2018

#rendering #code #unity

Pathtracer 15: Pause & Links Aug 1, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu

Pathtracer 14: iOS May 30, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu #mobile

Pathtracer 13: GPU threadgroup memory is useful! May 28, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu

Daily Pathtracer 12: GPU Buffer-Oriented D3D11 Apr 25, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu

Daily Pathtracer 11: Buffer-Oriented Apr 19, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer 10: Update C#&GPU Apr 16, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu

Daily Pathtracer 9: A wild ryg appears Apr 13, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer 8: SSE HitSpheres Apr 11, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer Part 7: Initial SIMD Apr 10, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer Part 6: D3D11 GPU Apr 4, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu #d3d

Daily Pathtracer Part 5: Metal GPU! Apr 3, 2018

#rendering #code #gpu

Daily Pathtracer Part 4: Fixes & Mitsuba Mar 31, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer Part 3: C# & Unity & Burst Mar 29, 2018

#rendering #code #unity

Daily Pathtracer Part 2: Fix Stupid Mar 28, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer Part 1: Initial C++ Mar 28, 2018

#rendering #code

Daily Pathtracer Part 0: Intro Mar 28, 2018

#rendering #code

UWP/WinRT Headers are Fun (not) Jan 19, 2018

#code #rant

Header Hero Improvements Jan 17, 2018

#code #devtools

Minimizing <windows.h> Jan 12, 2018

#code #devtools

2017

Slow to Compile Table Initializers Oct 24, 2017

#code #compilers #devtools

Best unknown MSVC flag: d2cgsummary Oct 23, 2017

#code #compilers #devtools

Forced Inlining Might Be Slow Oct 9, 2017

#code #compilers #devtools

Unreasonable Effectiveness of Profilers Aug 8, 2017

#code #compilers #devtools #performance

User's POV and Empathy May 7, 2017

#random #rant #code

How does Visual Studio pick default config/platform? Mar 23, 2017

#code #devtools

A case of slow Visual Studio project open times Mar 22, 2017

#code #devtools #rant #work #performance

Every Possible Scalability Limit Will Be Reached Feb 5, 2017

#code #work #unity #performance

UI is hard, and other Typical Work Stories Jan 30, 2017

#code #work

Chrome Tracing as Profiler Frontend Jan 23, 2017

#code #devtools

2016

Amazing Optimizers, or Compile Time Tests Dec 9, 2016

#code #compilers #rant

SPIR-V Compression Sep 1, 2016

#code #vulkan #rendering

More Hash Function Tests Aug 9, 2016

#code #performance

Hash Functions all the way down Aug 2, 2016

#code #performance

Solving DX9 Half-Pixel Offset Apr 8, 2016

#code #d3d #rendering

Backporting Fixes and Shuffling Branches Apr 7, 2016

#code #devtools #unity

2015

Careful With That STL map insert, Eugene Dec 11, 2015

#code #performance

Optimizing Unity Renderer Part 3: Fixed Function Removal Apr 27, 2015

#code #unity #work #performance

Optimizing Unity Renderer Part 2: Cleanups Apr 4, 2015

#code #unity #work #performance

Optimizing Unity Renderer Part 1: Intro Apr 1, 2015

#code #unity #work #performance

Optimizing Shader Info Loading, or Look at Yer Data! Jan 14, 2015

#code #performance

Curious Case of Slow Texture Importing, and xperf Jan 9, 2015

#code #performance

Divide and Conquer Debugging Jan 6, 2015

#code

2014

Cross Platform Shaders in 2014 Mar 28, 2014

#code #compilers #d3d #opengl

Rough sorting by depth Jan 16, 2014

#code

2013

Some Unity codebase stats Nov 8, 2013

#code #devtools #unity

Inter-process Communication: How? Aug 21, 2013

#code

"Parallel for" in Apple's GCD Feb 3, 2013

#code

2012

Cross Platform Shaders in 2012 Oct 1, 2012

#code #compilers #rendering

Careful with That Initializer, Eugene Jul 9, 2012

#code #compilers #performance

2011

Prophets and duct-tapers or: useful programmer traits Sep 9, 2011

#code #rant

Testing Graphics Code, 4 years later Jun 17, 2011

#code #rendering #unity #work

Mercurial/Kiln experience so far Apr 18, 2011

#code #devtools #unity #work

The Virtual and No-Virtual Feb 1, 2011

#code

iOS shader tricks, or it's 2001 all over again Feb 1, 2011

#code #gpu #mobile #opengl #rendering

2010

GLSL Optimizer Sep 29, 2010

#code #compilers #opengl #unity

Compiling HLSL into GLSL in 2010 May 21, 2010

#code #compilers #d3d #opengl #unity

Screenspace vs. mip-mapping Jan 7, 2010

#code #gpu #rendering

2009

Implementing fixed function T&L in vertex shaders Jun 9, 2009

#code #d3d #gpu #rendering #unity #work

How view on C++ changes over time Mar 1, 2009

#code #rant

Fixed function lighting in vertex shader - how? Jan 22, 2009

#code #d3d #gpu #rendering #work

2008

Achievement of the week: MakeVistaDWMHappyDance Dec 11, 2008

#code #random #rant #work

Don't try to outsmart the compiler Dec 6, 2008

#code

Implicit to-pointer operators must die! Oct 9, 2008

#code #rant #work

How watchdog threads should NOT be done... Sep 5, 2008

#code #work

It must be a bug in OS/compiler/... Jul 16, 2008

#code #random

Depth bias and the power of deceiving yourself Jun 12, 2008

#code #d3d #opengl #unity #work

Argh MFC! May 20, 2008

#code #rant #work

On job titles and design patterns May 9, 2008

#code #rant #work #personal

Tricky bugs: peculiarities of dynamic linking, and magic divisions Apr 19, 2008

#code #work

Dogfooding: PeaNinjas part 1 Feb 20, 2008

#code #games #unity

What's taking up space in your programs? Jan 17, 2008

#code

2007

Oblique near plane with orthographic camera Nov 12, 2007

#code #papers

Testing graphics code Jul 31, 2007

#code #unity #work

Electronic Arts STL Jul 16, 2007

#code #papers

Debugging story: video memory leaks Jul 14, 2007

#code #opengl #work

Now that's what I call a good API (stb_image) May 28, 2007

#code #work

What's wrong with this code? Feb 1, 2007

#code

2006

On work and clean code Jul 1, 2006

#code #unity #work

Back to some shader programming May 24, 2006

#code #work

OOP and other things now and then Apr 20, 2006

#code

Pair programming / animations Feb 15, 2006

#code

2005

64k coding continued Dec 23, 2005

#code #demos

Debugging plus Oct 26, 2005

#code

C++ clunkiness Sep 19, 2005

#code

Immediate mode GUI Jul 8, 2005

#code

Mesh seamless texturing tool released Jul 1, 2005

#code #demos

Demo engine website Jun 8, 2005

#code

Engine/demo sourcecode released Apr 22, 2005

#code #demos

Code dependencies Feb 26, 2005

#code #rant

A bunch of hacks Feb 10, 2005

#code #rant #work

Precalculated 2D fracture Feb 10, 2005

#code

What makes me an awful team member Feb 8, 2005

#code

Linear programming, redefined Feb 7, 2005

#code