Speaking with curiosity
I had two interactions recently that surprised me in light of how I think about this blog.
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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.
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Does C compile faster than C++?
I recently found myself wondering whether it is faster to compile C than C++. On some level, the answer to this is an obvious “yes”: You can’t accidentally summon cthulhu SFINAE-thulhu in your C code, for example. [Read More] -
Vector types and debug performance
For reasons, I have found myself writing a vector math library. Like Aras some time ago I’ve found an unpleasant surprise when looking at the debug performance of some vector types. [Read More] -
How to speed up random memory accesses
At some point when optimizing software, you are left with a soup of pointers that you just have to dereference, even though you know that you are going to suffer a cache miss for every single read. Common knowledge suggests that you just should not read from random pointers in... [Read More] -
How to iterate over section data in C++
Last time, we looked at callbacks you can directly embed into your binaries on Windows that are then called for every thread on start/end. The runtime is using this to initialize thread-locals that require more than just memcpy. Today, we are going to look at a mechanism that can be... [Read More]