I’ve ported QuickJS engine by Fabrice Bellard and Charlie Gordon to standard C (without GCC extensions) and Windows. Yet added premake5 to generate MS VS solution. See it on GitHub.
QuickJS for Visual Studio
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Category: C++
Premake5 and Compilation of Sciter Engine.
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Those famous “nightly builds”… Not a secret that compilation/build times are somehow critical for projects of Sciter’s scale. The fact: it takes from 4 to 6 hours to build Chrome/Chromium browser. And note – that is on dedicated build servers / farms, not on your work machine. So devops, as a desperate move, are forced to…
Robot Vasilii, progress report.
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(that is continuation of my previous article about Vasilii the Robot ) Not too much progress actually as I am busy with Sciter. Behavior of the robot is still quite basic as you see: But at this stage I have finalized its on board framework with my async.hpp library – header only await/async primitives. async.hpp…
C# Span versus aux::slice
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The Span<T> has landed in .NET Standard today. According to the article (Span<T> is) at the heart of most performance-related improvements in .NET Core 2.1. Since it allows managing buffers in a more efficient way, it can help in reducing allocations and copying. We consider Span to be a very fundamental type as it requires…
Refreshing AI basics …
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In the light of recent “AI hype” I’ve decided to refresh my knowledge about AI principles.
#include source “foo.c”, why not?
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If we would have #include source construct that includes compilation units into final assembly (rather than just headers in-place) any library can be included to a project as plain .c file:
When linear search O(N) is faster than hash table O(1) lookup
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Consider quite popular in programming task of string-to-enum value parsing. You have enum declared in your code (C/C++ but can be any modern programming language)
Modern Template Metaprogramming: A Compendium
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Just in case if someone as myself have missed presentation of His Excellence Mr. Walter E. Brown at CppCon 2014 Part I (above) and Part II
Sciter UI, basic principles. Calling code behind UI from worker threads.
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I’ve updated the SDK with new sample: /sdk/demos/ui-framework . This sample demonstrates principles outlined in “Sciter UI, application architecture” article. In particular it demonstrates definition of native function (view.execTask() -> window::exec_task()) and call of UI methods (callbacks in this sample) from worker threads. I’ve explained idea of calling UI code from worker threads in this…
Comments in source code considered harmful
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In the file ResourceFontFileLoader.h (offical Windows SDK samples) you can see variable declared as: static IDWriteFontFileLoader* instance_; As you see it is a raw pointer here. And in the file ResourceFontFileLoader.cpp it is initialized with this: // Smart pointer to singleton instance of the font file loader. IDWriteFontFileLoader* ResourceFontFileLoader::instance_( new(std::nothrow) ResourceFontFileLoader() ); Note the comment….