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C++ Object Streaming - Part II

Jan 16, 2024 · 10 min read · In Part I we discussed our overall strategy for object streaming, which needs to be handled carefully to support deserializing objects in-place in memory. We introduced the streaming operator, how to stream simple types such as arithmetic types, and ...

C++ Object Streaming - Part I

Jan 16, 2024 · 11 min read · Introduction You often need to serialize (save) C++ objects to files for storage, and deserialize (load) them later on a subsequent run of a program. In video games, these data can be resource assets such as textures and meshes, gameplay information ...

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C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part II

Oct 2, 2023 · 16 min read · In Part I of this blog series, we discussed how to write a lock-free queue for the case of a single producer thread and a single consumer thread (SPSC). This is handy when sending messages between dedicated threads, but we often want to have multiple...

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C++ Lock-Free Queue - Part I

Oct 2, 2023 · 15 min read · The queue is one of the fundamental data structures of multithreaded programming. It is often used for message-passing between systems and/or threads, commonly for event handling, task pools, or other types of work queues. In multithreaded environmen...

C++ Lock-Free Object Pool

Jun 5, 2023 · 14 min read · In C++, you often need a container where the objects will remain at a fixed location in memory so that you can easily refer to them individually. For example, our game could contain hundreds of thousands of Entity's and Component's, and our game syst...