There are various reasons why one would want to support plugins or extensions for an application. It allows third party to extend application, one can isolate development of parts of the application, and pick what to load at runtime. Whatever the motivation, this means loading .dll’s after the application has started, finding interfaces of interest and registering the… Read More »
The default setup for .Net Core MVC application is to use IoC. You get a Startup.cs file created that contains boilerplate code for IoC. If you want to use the builtin IoC with .Net Core you have to write it yourself. Luckily the HostBuilder makes this easy. You need to add nuget packages: Install-Package Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting Install-Package Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection Install-Package… Read More »
Benchmarking method execution through interface, base class, virtual, override, dynamic, reflection and expression trees. In .Net there are many ways to execute a method. The fastest being the straight forward call to a static method. But how does its speed compare to other methods? There are countless reasons why we sometimes can’t just make a direct call. We… Read More »
This is part 2 of 2. These posts are meant to give a basic introduction to voxel engines. In later posts I will dig into optimization techniques and benchmarking. In part 1 I touched on the basics of polygon mesh and voxel graphics. I also touched how a voxel world can be represented in memory to bypass some… Read More »
This is part 1 of 2. These posts are meant to give a basic introduction to voxel engines. In later posts I will dig into optimization techniques and benchmarking. So its that wonderful time of the year again where I play with something of my own choosing, uninterrupted for a few days. I left my work at work,… Read More »
Intro I have been a developer for somewhere around 30 years now. In my time I have created a few thousand projects of varying sizes, and for every new iteration I try to improve slightly on my previous. I also see a lot of code from others, and most what I see don’t seem care much about project… Read More »
To get the size of a data type in .Net you can use sizeof() or Marshal.SizeOf() . I’ll briefly explain the difference between the two. sizeof() sizeof() (MSDN) can only be used on data types that have a known size at compile-time. It is compiled as a constant. If you attempt to use it on invalid data types you… Read More »
Introduction What happens if a method is just a wrapper for another method? Is the extra jump optimized away by compiler? Does it take much time? I thought I’d look into this and measure a bit. With the different compilers, Jits and runtimes I thought it would be fun to see what happens. I’ll use a == operator… Read More »
Introduction With this post I am digging into some performance improvements for Unity 3D’s Vector2, Vector3, Vector4 and Quaternion. The short version is that they really need IEquatable<T> and can benefit from a better GetHashCode() . I’m demonstrating this with example of how it severely decreased performance in my project. Adding IEquatable<T> has no side-effects, if is actually best… Read More »
There are many ways to read configuraiton files in .Net. Using ConfigurationManager you can easily read for example appSettings section. But usually I want this to be in managed code. The solution often suggested is to create separate sections with a varying degree of manual work, field mapping and xml readers. Many of the solutions also suggest that… Read More »