Finally took the time to buy a licence for Fork. Truly the best UI for git, as it's the only one that never disappointed me. It's only missing Linux support but otherwise well worth its price. @[email protected]

New blog post about my journey into the ETW depths, I had long wanted to look into it, now I'm starting to regret it (just a bit). But this is great if you want to write your own tools for profiling! www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post...

@openvibe.social the app is really great except for one thing killing the experience for me on android: No way to copy a link or open it on your browser because you hide the webview toolbar!

While writing test code for an article on sampling profilers, I ended up in analyzing methods for high resolution sleeps on Windows. Follow me into the rabbit-hole of high resolution timers! www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post...

Visiting Nvidia GTC today, if you're there let's meet! #GTCParis

Tracy 0.12 was just released with thread wake-up visualization, added by yours truly! Check it out github.com/wolfpld/trac...

Just discovered @ap.brid.gy that let's you interact with Mastodon users! But it requires people from there to enable it too so... A bit limited?

Implemented a simple String Interning class for a client last week. Physical memory usage: Before: 1.9GB After: 1.5GB Using a preloaded cache: 1.3GB I might be on to something here...

New blog post! "Load store conflicts", in which we look at some performance sensitive code that has surprisingly dramatic performance swings based on the compiler and the microarchitecture used. Reposts appreciated! zeux.io/2025/05/03/l...

This is the third time I find issues due to codebases using rpmalloc this year... Spinlocking without any kind of pause/yield is such a bad idea. One of my threads got stuck for 4.5s !!!! At this point, I can only advise to stop using rpmalloc.

Really @microsoft.com ? 850MB for a godamn photo viewer that is slower and has a worse UX than the one shipped with Windows XP ?!

One thing people really like about Superluminal is that it Just Works, and we’re trying hard to get that same experience on Linux. But this platform sometimes really feels like it’s actively fighting against anything “just working” and it would really prefer you Do The Work tyvm.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 385 - March 30th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Following my article from yesterday, this link was shared on the DirectX discord. It's a community ran database of information about GPUs and their features. Pretty awesome and very useful to check compatibility!

Finally published an article I wrote eons ago about D3D12 descriptors and easy optimisations that you can do. This can save you both CPU time and memory! www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post...

I'm always surprised by the fact that the first answer to "we have perf problems" is to change the language. I mean, going native is obvious. But why didn't they start by using a proper profiler with instrumentation is beyond me.

Lost almost a day due to newer DbgHelp versions suddenly failing to load my .pdb files... Turns out they changed a small check that now requires all sizes to be 8bytes aligned. The intent was clearly to check that alignment of array entries was correct, but it ended up checking the size too...

I open-sourced a library to help you find race conditions! Great for those of you rewriting containers ( @pagghiu.bsky.social @jeremy.laumon.name ?) or people like me who work on codebases with a lot of people and you suspect things to be racy... Feedback is welcome! github.com/Lectem/BadAc...

C++ committee : still fighting about serialization Gamedev industry: Uses pdb to do hot reloading (live++), runtime visualisation and perf analysis (D0), runtime memory edit (playerunknownproductions.net/news/run-tim...)

“Celebrated are the minimal dependencies, the humble function that just quietly does the job, the code that doesn't need to be touched for years because it was done right once.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/bu...

Whoever said linux API/design is better than Win32 never tried to retrieve stack information for a thread (well, task) given its TID. You may start parsing `/proc/self/task/tid/maps` until you realize per-thread stack info were removed (too slow, obviously since there's no dedicated API).

Apple platforms support when writing low level code really is a pain. - Requires a MacOS machine to even compile - C docs are pretty much inexistant - pthread_*_np require reading impl to know what is available ("hard" to find but available at least)

Okay, Matthew Ball's The State of Video Gaming in 2025 is a really monumental achievement and an absolute gold mine of stats that put the current game industry into its economic context. Strongly recommend. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

Unity Burst and zero-cost: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-01-18-b...

Yearly reminder that virtual memory is not free, even if it looks like it is. That's true even if you only reserve it and don't commit. Everything has a cost.

So I was thinking "Let's finish writing this series of CMake articles". And then I saw this: Scary how time flies.

In languages with garbage collectors you need to watch out for memory usage and special constructs that may be taxing during the GC steps. The more memory is allocated, the more the GC may eat up CPU time you'd need for something else.

I came to BlueSky out of curiosity but didn't expect to find so many familiar faces (well, avatars/accounts). Including a lot that I didn't see for ages! Kind of liking it.