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
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