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Fifteen Ways to do Faster Blits
[Added: 7/24/1999]
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David Berube
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Contains several tips for optimizing blits. Includes sample blitting code and an explanation of what was done to speed it up.
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Implementing a 3D SIMD Geometry and Lighting Pipeline
[Added: 3/1/2000]
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Ronen Zohar and Haim Barad
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Covers speeding up your engine using the new P3 instructions. |
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Leveraging the Power of Cache Memory
[Added: 3/1/2000]
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Alexandre Macris and Pascal Urro
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Shows a couple of ways of using data structures to take advantage of caching. |
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Optimizations Corner: An Optimized Matrix Library in C++
[Added: 7/10/2000]
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Haim Barad
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Presents a set of optimized matrix routines that take advantage of SIMD architectural enhancements done to recent microprocessors. |
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Optimizations Corner: Cleaning Memory and Partial Stalls in Your Code
[Added: 7/10/2000]
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Haim Barad
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Explains the concept of partial stalls and how they affects performance on modern dynamic execution microarchitectures, relevant to Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III processors. |
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Optimizations Corner: Sorry, But Size Does Count!
[Added: 7/10/2000]
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Haim Barad
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Presents some useful data optimization guidelines and shows that size really does count after all. |
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Optimizations Corner: Tessellation of 4x4 Bezier Patches for the Intel Pentium III Processor
[Added: 4/27/2000]
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Haim Barad
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Barad demonstrates 4x4 Bezier patches and how, by creating an optimized engine that incorporates tessellated surfaces, one can exploit features such as continuous LOD and non-rigid body deformation. |
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Pentium III Prefetch Optimizations Using the VTune Performance Analyzer
[Added: 4/27/2000]
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Ornit Gross
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Speed up your games by prefetching data using Streaming SIMD Extensions. |
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Performance Programming Applied to C++
[Added: 7/29/2000]
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Joris Timmermans
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Fast code is a goal we all share. This article covers techniques you need to know to improve the performance of your programs, including some C++ specific suggestions. |
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Profiling, Data AnalEnsysis, Scalability, and Magic Numbers, Part 2: Using Scalable Features and Conquering the Seven Deadly Performance Sins
[Added: 8/24/2000]
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Herb Marselas
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Ensemble's Herb Marselas concludes his two-part series on game optimization. |
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Profiling, Data Analysis, Scalability, and Magic Numbers
[Added: 8/16/2000]
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Herb Marselas
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The first of a two-part series reveals the tips, tricks, tools, and pitfalls that went into raising the performance profile of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. so that it would run well on the minimum machine specification. |
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Speeding up Memory Reads and Writes with VectorC
[Added: 8/16/2000]
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Andrew Richards
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This article covers "prefetching" and "non-temporal stores" which can speed up performance considerably when used well. It also discusses using assembly language instead of VectorC to do the same job. |
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Using VectorC to Take Advantage of MMX, 3DNow! and SSE
[Added: 7/7/2000]
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Andrew Richards
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VectorC is a new compiler specifically designed to be used in game development. Here, VectorC's creator describes how to use it to optimize performance using Intel and AMD's multimedia instructions. |
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Video Applications For the Pentium III Processor
[Added: 7/10/2000]
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Asi Elbaz
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Describes how the Pentium III processor and Streaming SIMD Extensions can improve the performance of integer-based applications, using examples from the MPEG encoder application. |
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