Alexander Houghton

As my first foray into CUDA programming I set myself a challenge to experiment with different methods of finding the total sum of a large array of numbers, trying different strategies exposed via CUDA to see how different approaches compare and what comes…

I wanted to get a feel for how fast my AMD Radeon RX 6600 could transfer memory around and how much this changed depending on how much memory was being transferred as well as what type of memory was being copied to and from (E.g.

Slim Graphics is my toy graphics engine I’ve been using to experiment with different graphical techniques and learn more about DirectX 12 as well as other graphical features such as Mesh Shaders as well as optimisation techniques.

Mutexs, Semaphores, Condition Variables, Critical Sections… There are so many different synchronisation types to choose from but how do they compare in terms of performance and what other synchronisation types are there we can explore?

I was recently running some performance benchmarks across different platforms to understand the cost of some simple mathematic functions such as sqrtf and quickly noticed, under certain circumstances compilers such as MSVC, Clang and GCC by default will n…

Introduction There are plenty of fantastic websites out there which explain the technicalities of Gamma Correction and SRGB colour correction so won’t try to do the same here.

If your Windows executable is using /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS rather than /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE, something you will have noticed your output messages to stdout (printf, std::cout etc) will be missing.

If you’re in a situation where your console output text is being truncated because so many lines have been output, you may want to increase the limit.

Unity/Jumbo builds are a way of speeding up C/C++ compilation by compiling multiple c/cpp files as a single object file.

ℹ️ Update August 2026 Hello!