Comment by anonymoushn | Hacker News Reader

Comment by anonymoushn | Hacker News Reader

Hello, recently I've enjoyed Casey Muratori's Performance-Aware Programming course[0]. You could read Algorithms for Modern Hardware[1] to learn similar set of stuff though. Casey's course is aimed at bringing beginners all the way to a nearly-industry-leading understanding of performance issues while the book assumes a bit more knowledge, but I think a lot of people have trouble getting into this stuff using a book if they don't have related experience.

I've also found Hacker's Delight Second Edition[2] to be a useful reference, and I really wish that I would get around to reading What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory[3] in full, because I end up reading a bunch of other things[4] to learn stuff that's surely in there.

[0]: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/welcome-to-the-performance...

[1]: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

[2]: https://github.com/lancetw/ebook-1/blob/80eccb7f59bf102586ba...

[3]: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

[4]: https://danluu.com/3c-conflict/

I was going to say check out something from Casey too. Maybe just randomly jump into one of the 600+ videos for handmade hero and try to see what he's doing. I think Casey is a great educator, even if he has a lot of hot takes.

It's worth pointing out that Handmade Hero is not an example of how anyone should approach making a video game, and even Casey would say that, since that isn't his goal.

Use libraries. Use frameworks. Don't use C++ but reimplement the stdlib because you hate C++ and assume it was designed by morons. Don't spend... how many years has it been now, nearly ten? On a debug room that looks like a high school CS project.

The point isn't just to make a game, but learn how all how it all works under the hood. He's stated multiple times throughout Handmade Hero that you probably don't want to make a game that way.

> Don't spend... how many years has it been now, nearly ten? On a debug room that looks like a high school CS project.

If you add all the hours up from every episode it's less than a years worth of work...

Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow are some of the greatest minds countering the whole programming movement which creates sub par software imo.

While I like some of their opinions they do pontificate an awful lot for folks who haven’t delivered what could be considered “above par” source code- the stuff in their streams is pretty darn messy.

Both of them, especially Casey are focused on extreme performance. If you write graphics engines and low-level tools for games, you have constraints that 99.9% of devs don't.

Its a constraint that every dev should have. Just because you are making a db driven web app doesn't mean your app and db doesn't need to be fast. How on earth can you take the user's bandwith, memory, energy consumption for granted. That's what they are reminding people of.

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