Distributed Systems

2011 Replication, atomicity and order in distributed systems Alex Feinberg

Genetic Algorithms

2011 Genetic Algorithms Tutorial LeoLoL

64-bit Architecture

2011 All about 64-bit programming in one place Andrey Karpov

Graphics Pipeline

2011 A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011 Fabian Giesen

Rendering

2000 Radiosity Hugo Elias

2011 Line clipping Phaeron

2011 Raytracing Myths Deadc0de

Network Databases

2007 The Next Generation of Neural Networks Geoffrey Hinton

Branch Elimination

2006 Benefits to Branch Elimination Mike Acton

2007 Switch case to a jump table bytes

2009 Jump Table Switch Case question stackoverflow

2011 Old Tricks, New Dogs: Removing Branches Luke Hutchinson

wiki Switch Statement Smell c2 wiki

wiki Branch Table

wiki Duff's device

SSAO

2011 Multi-resolution screen-space ambient occlusion Hoang Thai Duong

N-Body Problem

2011 The Barnes-Hut Algorithm Tom Ventimiglia & Kevin Wayne

Lazy Evaluation

2009 On Being Sufficiently Smart James Hague

2011 Haskell’s evaluation isn’t magic David Sankel

Program Compilation

1999 C/C++ Program Compilation Dave Marshall

2002 Makefiles by example Hector Urtubia

2004 Beginner's Guide to Linkers David Drysdale

2008 C++ and the linker Alexander Bernauer

Main Loops

2001 Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps Javier Arevalo

2006 Fix Your Timestep Glenn Fiedler

2008 Canonical Game Loop bulletphysics.org Wiki

2011 Threading and Your Game Loop Kevin Gadd

HTML5

2010 OpenGL and 3D in HTML5 David Griffiths

2011 HTML5 fundamentals, Part 1 Grace Walker

2011 HTML5 fundamentals, Part 2: Organizing inputs Grace Walker

Interpreter Loops

2011 Re: Suggestions on implementing an efficient instruction set simulator in LuaJIT2 Mike Pall

Image Formats

2005 What's In A GIF - Bit by Byte Matthew Flickinger

Software Development

1999 Big Ball of Mud Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

2008 Clean Code Sam Zenpus

2011 Writing Maintainable Code Michael Williamson

2011 Agile Scrum: Delivering Broken Software Since 1991 Pete Sergeant

2011 Parallel Implementations John Carmack

Singletons

2007 Performant Singletons Josh Petrie

State Machine Management

2006 PDF An Architecture for Game State Management Based on State Hierarchies Valente, Conci & Feijo

Scene Hierarchy

2008 Combining transform hierarchy and dynamics/physics gamedev.net

2011 Data oriented scene gamedev.net

2011 Entity/SceneNode Distinction in a Game Engine gamedev.net

Data Oriented Programming

2007 Functional Principles of Cache Memory Paul V. Bolotoff

2007 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory Ulrich Drepper

2008 Checking available stack size in C stackoverflow.com

2009 PDF Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming Tony Albrecht

2009 Delicious Data Baking Noel Llopis

2010 Pitfalls of lack of encapsulation Oleg Andreev

2010 [C++] Suitable container for tree nodes gamedev.net

2010 Scope Stack Allocation Andreas Fredriksson

2010 Gallery of Processor Cache Effects Igor Ostrovsky

2011 ACCU 2011: Scott Meyers on CPU Caches and Why You Care Scott Meyers

2011 Data Oriented Design: How to disable elements gamedev.net

2011 Alternatives to malloc and new Steven Tovey

2011 Why is one loop so much slower than two loops? stackoverflow

2012 You ever wonder what the most optimal block size for a database system on a spindle drive or SSD was? Riyad Kalla

Entity Component Systems

2002 Game Object Structure: Inheritance vs. Aggregation Kyle Wilson

2004 Introduction To Dungeon Siege Architecture Gas Powered Games

2007 Evolve Your Hierarchy Mick West

2008 Segregation is Good Victor Nicollet

2009 Game Programming Patterns: Component Robert Nystrom

2009 Component Based Entity System Design Part 1 Tyler Bello

2010 Component Based Entity System Design - Phase 2: post 30 gamedev.net

2010 PPT A Dynamic Component Architecture for High Performance Gameplay Terrance Cohen

2011 Refactoring with components gamedev.net