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“Clean” code, horrible performance
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.
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Turns are better than radians
Switching away from radians makes code simpler, faster, and more precise.
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The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake
My presentation from the inaugural Better Software Conference, with notes.
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The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)
Interestingly enough, at least two of them were specifically about performance!
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Game Development Post-Unity
What are the options for game developers looking to migrate away from Unity?
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Performance excuses debunked
There are many legitimate arguments to be had about performance, but there are also plain old excuses. It's time to end the excuses.