rougier

NΛNO Emacs font stack

• Default font: Roboto Mono , 14pt, Light
• Italic font: Victor Mono , 14pt, Semilight
• Bold font: Roboto Mono , 14pt, Regular
• Unicode font: Inconsolata , 16pt, Light
• Icon font: Roboto Mono Nerd , 12pt, Light

Text excerpt using a gorgeous and true italic font (Victor Mono), chosen to really stand out from the default font (Roboto Mono).

taylorza

Filling an array or slice with a repeated pattern

Looking for an efficient pure GO approach to copy repeating patterns into a slice, for a toy project, I ran a few tests and discovered a neat approach to significantly improve performance. For the toy project, I am using this to fill a background buffer with a specific RGB color pattern, so improving this performance significantly improved my acheivable framerate.

All the test were run with a buffer of 73437 bytes, allocated as follows

var bigSlice = make([]byte, 73437, 73437)

Fill the slice with the value 65 by looping through each element and setting the value