How We Learn and Evolve our Code Base
summary
Polystream builds Phantom, a spectator engine that streams 3D geometry and commands—no GPU on the host—using a bespoke command streaming protocol, high-performance compression and large-scale telemetry; evolution from C to modern C++ over four to five years emphasizes pragmatic feature adoption (C++17/20), measured gains and occasional Visual Studio 2019 gotchas. Code practice favors functionality over classes, lambdas and constexpr for locality and speed, explicit resource APIs (pass an explicit allocator), avoid hidden thread creation, and gate changes with GitHub pull-request reviews and targeted benchmarks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30What is Polystream
- 1:28Our Code Base
- 3:47Modern C
- 6:05C vs C
- 12:00Lambdas
- 17:11Summary
- 24:02Learning other languages
- 29:56Performance
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