Posts

• 28 Apr 2024

  Microcorruption Mania

  At first, Microcorruption was just a diversion. Whenever I was bored with my main project, I could spend a few hours on ...
• 11 Apr 2024

  A Recurse Center Return Statement

  I recent completed 18 weeks at the Recurse Center, “the retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow”...
• 29 Mar 2024

  SIMD + Parallelism: Ray Tracer Optimization Part 3

  Ok, so I sort of buried the lede in the last post: after removing recursion the ray tracer renders the image in 37 secon...
• 25 Mar 2024

  A Recursion Riddle: Ray Tracing Optimization Part 2

  Since I learned about compiler optimization levels, I’ve gone down a deep rabbit hole of CPU performance optimizat...
• 22 Mar 2024

  gcc -wtf: Optimizing my Ray Tracer, Part I

  Inspired by others at the Recurse Center, I recently built a ray tracer by working through the excellent book Ray Tracin...
• 11 Mar 2024

  Starting Up

  I’ve never written anything on the internet before. Sure I’ve sent emails, but I’ve never had a websit...