Tag Archives: Development

MFC 25th Birthday Makeover (Part 4)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by mydeveloperday

In this 4th installment of giving MFC a Windows 10 makeover, I want to focus on some of the little things that make an application look like its Windows 10, some of the items are going to seem picky but … Continue reading →

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MFC 25th Birthday Makeover (Part 3)

Posted on March 7, 2017 by mydeveloperday

In this 3rd installment as we try to make our example application look more “Windows 10”, we start with our application with still too much blue Lets start by trying to remove the blue from the tabs, virtual void OnDrawTab(         CDC* pDC,         CRect rectTab, … Continue reading →

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Recording Timings for Optimization Measurement Experiments

Posted on June 26, 2015 by mydeveloperday

In a number of my blog posts up to this point I’ve used a simple timing function call recordTime() to record time between 2 points in the code. I’ve been doing optimization enough to know you must measure everything. There … Continue reading →

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A loop is a loop is a loop…or is it

Posted on June 23, 2015 by mydeveloperday

This is a aside to my SIMD posts, but it really shows AutoVectorization in action.. You might think all for next loops were built equal, but recently whilst looking at a tight looping in Intel VTune I was surprised that the loop … Continue reading →

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Adventures in SIMD – Part 1- Introduction

Posted on June 22, 2015 by mydeveloperday

Over the last 20 years we’ve seen massive growth in the speeds of CPU architectures where clock speeds where constantly increasing, however in the last couple of years we’ve seen this growth drastically slow. We’ve seen numbers of cores grow … Continue reading →

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When I like to use the power of classes

Posted on June 22, 2015 by mydeveloperday

I look at a lot of other peoples code, legacy code from 20 years ago all the way up to stuff just written.. and one common thread comes out.. developers don’t always use the power of classes. What I mean by … Continue reading →

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When MOD went bad

Posted on June 22, 2015 by mydeveloperday

When I recently used Intel VTune to understand why a hash based container seemed to be slow, it showed me something that surprised me. A “General Exploration” analysis showed excessive “DIV” instructions, caused by a mod function (e.g.) (in a tight loop) … Continue reading →

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33 years of developing!

Posted on June 22, 2015 by mydeveloperday

Years after I first started programming on my ZX Spectrum, I still find myself doing what I love and getting paid for it, only the world has a much different way of learning than it used to. Gone are the … Continue reading →

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