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ibireme / kpc_demo.c
Last active October 21, 2024 18:07
A demo shows how to read Intel or Apple M1 CPU performance counter in macOS.
// =============================================================================
// XNU kperf/kpc demo
// Available for 64-bit Intel/Apple Silicon, macOS/iOS, with root privileges
//
//
// Demo 1 (profile a function in current thread):
// 1. Open directory '/usr/share/kpep/', find your CPU PMC database.
// M1 (Pro/Max/Ultra): /usr/share/kpep/a14.plist
// M2 (Pro/Max): /usr/share/kpep/a15.plist
// M3: /usr/share/kpep/as1.plist
@raysan5
raysan5 / custom_game_engines_small_study.md
Last active November 19, 2024 15:34
A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

a_plague_tale

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

@kalmanolah
kalmanolah / haste.py
Last active December 8, 2021 21:47
Simple python script for putting things on hastebin. The resulting hastebin URL is copied to your primary clipboard using xsel. Usage: `cat yourfile.txt | haste`, `haste yourfile.txt`, 'haste` or `haste --clip`. `haste --help` for help.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# @python3
# @author Kalman Olah <[email protected]>
"""A hastebin CLI tool."""
import click
import json
import requests
import subprocess
import sys
@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

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href / dict_namedtuple.py
Created October 27, 2011 12:00
Convert any dictionary to a named tuple
from collections import namedtuple
def convert(dictionary):
return namedtuple('GenericDict', dictionary.keys())(**dictionary)
"""
>>> d = dictionary(a=1, b='b', c=[3])
>>> named = convert(d)
>>> named.a == d.a
True
>>> named.b == d.b