Whatever crossed my mindby Ian Qvist
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Performance

Optimization, benchmarking, memory use, and measuring what matters.

Articles

20 articles · 2009–2025

2025

  1. The history of gperf Algorithms / Performance

2018

  1. Beware of BrotliStream in .NET Core 2.1 C# / Performance
  2. Performance measurement mistakes in academic publications Performance
  3. Reducing the size of self-contained .NET Core applications C# / Performance

2014

  1. .NET compression libraries benchmark C# / Performance

2010

  1. Benchmarking Box2D-based physics engines Game Development / Performance
  2. Optimizing performance on the Xbox 360 – part 2 Performance / Game Development
  3. Optimizing performance on the Xbox 360 – part 1 Performance / Game Development
  4. Performance tips and tricks series Performance / C#

2009

  1. Floating- and fixed-point arithmetic Algorithms / Performance
  2. Performance tips and tricks – part 4 Performance / C#
  3. Performance tips and tricks – part 3 Performance / C#
  4. Performance tips and tricks – part 2 Performance / C#
  5. Performance tips and tricks – part 1 Performance / C#
  6. The famous inverse square root Algorithms / Performance
  7. Mathematical operations and micro-benchmarking Algorithms / Performance
  8. The accuracy and speed of function approximations – part 3 Algorithms / Performance
  9. The accuracy and speed of function approximations – part 2 Algorithms / Performance
  10. The accuracy and speed of function approximations Algorithms / Performance
  11. That new code smell – with a C# example Algorithms / Performance