C++ Professional Game Engine Programming

Paul Mattione

Paul Mattione

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I am a Video Game Engine Programmer, formerly working for Volition Games! The content of this blog is my own personal work and views, and is not endorsed by any other party.

C++ Object Streaming - Part II

Jan 16, 202410 min read

In Part I we discussed our overall strategy for object streaming, which needs to be handled carefully to support deserializing objects in-place in...

C++ Object Streaming - Part II

C++ Object Streaming - Part I

Jan 16, 202411 min read

Introduction You often need to serialize (save) C++ objects to files for storage, and deserialize (load) them later on a subsequent run of a program....

C++ Object Streaming - Part I

C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part II

Oct 2, 202316 min read

In Part I of this blog series, we discussed how to write a lock-free queue for the case of a single producer thread and a single consumer thread...

C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part II

C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part I

Oct 2, 202315 min read

The queue is one of the fundamental data structures of multithreaded programming. It is often used for message-passing between systems and/or threads,...

C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part I

C++ Lock-Free Object Pool

Jun 5, 202314 min read

In C++, you often need a container where the objects will remain at a fixed location in memory so that you can easily refer to them individually. For...

C++ Lock-Free Object Pool

Getting Type Names in C++

Apr 19, 20236 min read

For logging and debugging it can be extremely useful to get a string for the name of a type in C++. However, the standard library doesn't supply a...

Getting Type Names in C++