Stefan Reinalter

Dear Squeaks, Thank you giving us 2 more days for saying our goodbyes. Thank you for 10 years of your companionship, your affection, and your love. You were such a kind and gentle soul. Know that we loved you every single step of our way together. You will be dearly missed.

I've been dreaming of this C++ profiler for my game for over a year. It's now here. It shows me the slowest code logic that runs over my game components in real time. Each one is a lambda that I can find at the file name and line number. An hour after I made this, I already…

You do realize Europe is big and you might have went to a shitty restaurant?

Here we go: Hot-Redirect. Hook any function in any module to your own implementation, hot-reload that as often as you want. Can all be done on the fly. And the best: got it working on consoles too, which I believe is a first. Think DTrace & ProcMon & Hot-Reload on steroids.

That would be the GlobalOptPass, godbolt.org/z/nYbrWsdos or in particular `GV->getName() + "." + Twine(NameSuffix++)` in `SRAGlobal`: github.com/llvm/llvm-proj… or `GV->getName()+"."+utostr(i)` originally added in the first version of `SRAGlobal` here: github.com/llvm/llvm-proj….

I just had an idea for Live++ 3 for something that no other middleware - hot-reload solution or otherwise - allows you to do, which could be tremendously helpful for debugging.

Live++ 2.9.3 out now: liveplusplus.tech/releases.html Last month was busy! A lot of bugfixes across all platforms and vastly improved loading times for projects with several dozens of dynamic libraries. Extra thanks to Resmi Hasankolli from EA for his help with Frostbite support. #cpp

Here's a Compiler Explorer link: godbolt.org/z/Mc6s3bvea With optimizations, Clang will add a ".0" suffix (don't know why) to the name, so e.g.: struct POD { int value; }; // name with -O1: "_ZL5g_pod.0" // name with -O0: "_ZL5g_pod" static POD g_pod;

Just found a case where the compiler emits a symbol in .bss with a different name, depending on whether optimizations are turned on or off, which messes with Hot-Deoptimize. There are so many strange things I learn about compilers.

Trying to debug a VSIX extension by launching with F5 in VS, which opens a debuggable, experimental VS instance must be the ultimate "Why is everything *sooo* slow?" experience. Try it.

I really hope they choke on their 80 billion AI investment. At the end of the day, every creative human working on one of those projects is just a single entry in an Excel sheet. What a colossal waste of talent and money, acquiring studios to shut them and their project down.

Definitely one of the hackiest pieces of code I've written in the last decade or so, it's nasty.

Rip and tear, until it is done.

New personal record: MSFT fixed a bug I reported more than 7 (!) years ago: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Dereferencin… Though I hope it's been fixed already a long time ago and they just made a cleanup of the bug database...

The interesting thing to me is that the skills that are valuable are developed by spending lots and lots of time doing the things that are being replaced. That will become a problem at some point.

After debugging for a week, I guess I'm a member of the "have to work around a platform SDK bug" now. Do I get a medal or something?

Thanks Adrian! liveplusplus.tech/testimonials.h…

Forgot one thing regarding server host: companies and servers in the EU preferred.

Due to unforeseen circumstances and a major blunder on my current host's behalf: I'm looking for a new RELIABLE server host, managed/dedicated. Recommendations? Contacted Hetzner already, but haven't heard back in 2.5 days, which does not instill confidence. How is their support?

I should write up my full thoughts on frame pointer omission sometime, but in short, it is such a terrible tradeoff, and such a terrible default. “Your software is now marginally faster, and in exchange you can no longer profile anything, because who needs that”

Didn't have a particularly good day today for various business reasons, but received some brilliant feedback about Live++ from a new customer that really saved the day :).