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

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• Not Obviously Bad, and Obviously Not Bad

  Posted on March 10, 2025

  Someone asked the other day what a reasonable performance target is for a general purpose engine. This is an interesting question, so let’s discuss it a bit. [Read More]

• Performance theories

  Posted on March 4, 2025

  Last time, I wrote about data and decision making, and some frustrations when people pretend like “data” is always the solution. Now let’s look at a place where data very often is (part of) the answer: Profiling and performance is a comparatively forgiving space data-wise, because at least the hypothesis... [Read More]

• A non-exhaustive list of faults in Unity's Cache Server

  Posted on February 26, 2025

  I recently looked into setting up a Unity cache server (“Accelerator”). It is quickly becoming clear that the accelerator is not, in fact, accelerating Unity. Here is a list of shortcomings: Some of the most expensive asset types are not even cached. In particular, neither shader graph assets nor VFX... [Read More]

• What does the data say?

  Posted on February 20, 2025

  Data! Everybody loves Data! Let’s use data to make all our decisions. [Read More]

• Why I left Epic Games

  Posted on February 17, 2025

  I recently had someone reach out to me and ask this question: [Read More]

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