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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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  • 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]