Engine Support Systems

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Today's goal is to build habits of thinking about highly performant subsystems and how we control them.

Slides and Notes

• Slides/Notes are located here

In Class Activity

• In-Class Quiz (You get one submission! Please do this during alotted time in class)

Supplement Videos

• Neat Future Mark Benchmark video
• Lecture 3 Audio Recording
  

Additional Code Samples

• locality.cpp (Run this code on your compiler before or during the In-Class Quiz/Activity)
• dot.cpp (Fun Experiment. Use this to inspire improvements to Matrix3D)
• destructor.cpp (LIFO destructor call order)

Additional Resources

• Stack vs Heap
• The Absolute Minimum Every Soft ware Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)” by Joel Spolsky (Creator of Stack Overflow)
• https://godbolt.org(See color coded assembly from compilers )
• Writing a Game Engine from Scratch-Memory (Another take on todays memory management section)
• Object Pooling in Unity (Folks with Unity Experience -- this is key takeaway from the memory management section of the lecture in practice)