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Download the benchmark code on GitHub. C++14 introduced ordered transparency lookup which enables const char* and string_view lookup without string instantiation on map/set objects. C++20 introduced unordered transparency lookup that allows to do same thing with unordered_map/unordered_set. We are officially in 2020 but as of writing time, the C++20 Standard is yet to be ratified …

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Floating-Point Dissector is available for download at GitHub. Table of Contents Introduction Floating-Point Dissector Common Misconceptions Floating-Point Conversion to Integer 32-Bit Floating-Point Format Zero Subnormal (Underflow) Subnormal are much slower on Intel processor Infinity (Overflow) Not a Number Summary Chart Floating-Point Exception Equality Test Other Types References Introduction The IEEE 754 standard for floating-point format …

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Table of Contents Introduction Lee Algorithm for Mazesolving Important Notes Direct2D Code References History Introduction In 1999, my team won Obstacle Avoidance Robot(OAR) first prize in the Singapore Robotics Games(SRG). That was 20 years ago. I do not have a photo of OAR, but it looks very much like micromouse. The micromouse maze is constructed …

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Table of Contents Introduction ref-return on Value Member Benchmark Conclusion Reference History Introduction C# 7 introduced ref-local and ref-return functionality to allow safe direct-memory access to value variables. Before C# 7, we could do it in an unsafe code but now is available to access in a safe way. This is an example of ref-local …

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Table of Contents Introduction Render Function Setting up OpenGL with SDL2 Setting up OpenGL with Emscripten OpenGL Shader Precision Inline your Shader Code Load Asset Introduction Prior to reading this article, that is if you have not setup your Emscripten, you have to read this article: Bring Your C++ Code to the Web. Let me …

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Introduction For file storage and data communication to work interoperably, the width of datatype must stay invariant across platforms. This tip discusses the pitfalls of platform-dependent data width and their solution. Endianess, deserving a tip of its own, is not covered here. time_t time_t stores the number of seconds since 1st January 1970. It is …

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  Table of Contents Introduction Red Video One JPEG Video Two JPEG Video Text Animation Video Introduction Last year, I introduced a single header windows-based software-based video encoder for OpenGL that works on Windows 7 and above. See the above video demo! I have decoupled it from the OpenGL thread and make it simpler to …

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Introduction Content Security Policy (CSP) is a computer security standard introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) and clickjacking attacks. Explained simply, CSP is a whitelist of origins of content that is allowed to load or execute on a webpage. We’ll look at the three versions of CSP and …

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  Table of Contents Introduction Installing Windows Subsystem For Linux Installing Emscripten Hello World Programs Calling JavaScript Code from C/C++ Calling C/C++ code from JavaScript Cross Platform Introduction WebAssembly's predecessor, asm.js converts C/C++, Rust code into a low level JavaScript to run on the web browser. The unveiling of WebAssembly on March 2017 has enabled …

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