How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was released 7 years ago. It was time. Time to get to the bottom of this.
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Navigate your code like it's 2021
Empirical studies found that developers spend 35-50% of their time just navigating code. Many of these navigations are wasted though, given that 50% of them yielded less information than developers expected and 40% required more effort than predicted.
Four Ways of Writing Thoughtful Code to Think Less
Long before I was offloading brainpower to Stack Overflow, I sought to offload it for my future self (ahem, and teammates of course). I have a book to thank for this. Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”. It’s a critique of complex user interfaces.
An introduction to lockless algorithms
Lockless algorithms are of interest for the Linux kernel when traditional locking primitives either cannot be used or are not performant enough.
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