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

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  • Unity Burst - Interacting with managed code

    Posted on October 28, 2024

    In the context of Unity, Burst often provides huge speed-ups compared to Mono at the cost of placing more restrictions on the code you can actually write. Burst has a leg up on Mono because Burst actually makes a good effort to optimize your code whereas Mono is more about... [Read More]
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  • Getting people to do the right thing

    Posted on September 16, 2024

    A useful guiding idea for my work at various companies has always been this: When you want to get people in a sizeable company to change their behavior, it is more effective to change the environment than to (ex)change the people. “Behavior” here might mean “the way that people write... [Read More]

  • Fourier Transforms via dot products

    Posted on September 2, 2024

    In June, Juan Linietsky (of Godot fame) recommended “The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing” by Steven W. Smith (book website) as a good introduction to digital signal processing for audio. I have dabbled with writing filters but never rigorously, and while I had used the Fourier transform... [Read More]

  • std::stacktrace, redeemed?

    Posted on August 15, 2024

    My last note dealt with collecting callstacks on Windows. As so often, I learned a bunch from what everyone else had to say about it, so here is the collection of the things I have learned. [Read More]

  • Collecting Callstacks

    Posted on August 13, 2024

    I have a leak-tracking allocator for my personal C++ codebase. It records all allocations (except the ones it is making) by capturing a stack trace for every allocation, puts those traces into a hashmap, and then deletes the entries when the allocations are freed. Then on program shutdown (or any... [Read More]