Blogs / Personal blogs

Dale Weiler

graphitemaster.github.io

Popular posts
3
Total points
443
HN comments
582
Rank
#5,947 personal

Visit graphitemaster.github.io → On Hacker News Oct 2020 – Sep 2022

Software Engineering 3Programming Languages 2Systems & Performance 1

1

Almost Always Unsigned

Almost Always Unsigned # Written by Dale Weiler Twitter GitHub Last updated Saturday, January 1, 2022 The need for signed integer arithmetic is often misplaced as most integers never represent negative values within a program. The indexing of arrays and iteration count of a loop reflects this concept as well. There…

2

A Review of the Odin Programming Language

A review of the Odin programming language # Written by Dale Weiler Twitter GitHub Last updated Tuesday, September 10th, 2022 What is Odin # For those unfamiliar, Odin is a systems programming language that is more conservative in its design than other newer programming languages such as Rust, Zig, and Carbon. The…

3

Fibers, Oh My

Fibers, Oh My! # Written by Dale Weiler, last updated Oct 5th, 2020 Twitter GitHub It’s been brought to the attention of many people in the game development industry that you can use fibers to parallelize your engines and games. This one presentation in particular: Parallelizing the Naughty Dog engine using fibers has…