by ijam.day@tailoredbrands.co.uk | Oct 13, 2020 | Technology
Runtime memory patching on x86/x64 In this blog post we will be discussing different ways of modifying code that is being executed by changing the underlying x86/x64 instructions. This will not only allow us to improve iteration times but also increase efficiency... 
by ijam.day@tailoredbrands.co.uk | Oct 13, 2020 | Technology
Startup as you mean to go on We’ve been setting up our little engineering team at Polystream HQ over this last week or so and even though we’re only four people, we’ve taken care to leverage all our experience and knowledge of “big teams” in the process. As a startup... 
by ijam.day@tailoredbrands.co.uk | Oct 13, 2020 | Technology
How hard can it be? We’re all getting deep into the development challenges here at Polystream; over these last couple of weeks our little band of highly talented developers have been diving into Adam (CTO)’s code base to evolve and expand it. In between the rhythmic... 
by ijam.day@tailoredbrands.co.uk | Oct 13, 2020 | Technology
Code is Craft; or “How to keep the pixies away…” The title of this blog entry refers to a Norwegian fairy tale about a man who wanted to move away from his house where a “Nisse” (house spirit, or pixie) had become a stubborn problem. But, no matter how far away... 
by ijam.day@tailoredbrands.co.uk | Oct 13, 2020 | Technology
Intro to utilizing ispc ispc is Intel’s compiler for generating optimised code across modern CPUs. It supports both Intel and non-Intel architectures. From https://ispc.github.io/ “ispc is a compiler for a variant of the C programming language, with extensions for... 
by ijam.day@tailoredbrands.co.uk | Oct 13, 2020 | Technology
A bit different metaprogramming At Polystream we often work on API surfaces. That surface can be big and require lots of tedious boilerplate code. As an example, D3D11’s ID3D11DeviceContext interface has 108 methods. This is a one time cost per API, so it’s not... 
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