C++ Professional Game Engine Programming

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I'm Paul Mattione, formerly a Principal Programmer working on the Engine Team at Volition Games! All of the code on this blog is available under the Apache 2.0 license. If you would like to support my work, donations would be greatly appreciated!

C++ Object Streaming - Part II

Jan 16, 2024 In Part I we discussed our overall strategy for object streaming, which needs to be handled carefully to support deserializing objects in-place in memory. We introduced the streaming operator, how to stream simple types such as arithmetic types, and ...

C++ Object Streaming - Part I

Jan 16, 2024 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. In video games, these data can be resource assets such as textures and meshes, gameplay information ...

C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part II

Oct 2, 2023 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 (SPSC). This is handy when sending messages between dedicated threads, but we often want to have multiple...

C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part I

Oct 2, 2023 The queue is one of the fundamental data structures of multithreaded programming. It is often used for message-passing between systems and/or threads, commonly for event handling, task pools, or other types of work queues. In multithreaded environmen...

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