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A while ago, I became interested in reducing my compile times, and examined various methods for this.

Virtual functions are one of C++’s core features, enabling runtime polymorphism.

In C and C++ programs, it’s quite common to embed binary data directly in executables.

This post explains exactly how UTF-16 encodes Unicode code points into bytes.

This post explains exactly how UTF-8 encodes Unicode code points into bytes.

Text encoding is a topic that not enough programmers understand well.

Recently, I was bored and decided to test the performance of a 4x4 matrix multiply.

I recently implemented BigObj COFF file parsing in cgo (golang/go#24341).

When developing console applications, the Windows “Legacy Console” can be a handy tool.

In part 1, we looked at how application developers can create a universal Vector2 type that converts to and from different library types.

The Interoperability Problem When using multiple libraries in your project, a quite frequent source of annoyance is trying to share their fundamental types, such as a two dimensional vector, quaternion, euler angle, etc.

Cross compilation is a common task during development, but different compilers and programming languages handle it in their own ways, and I wanted to write about the various flavors of trade-offs and design decisions that you will find across different to…

When executing various Makefiles with w64devkit, you can occasionally run across a Windows program with a Makefile written for cmd.exe.