https://gamer24h.com/members/frag-noah/activity/ Activity feed for Noah Phillips. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:48:32 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5d0252c7005f22895c83cc9f9eaa83b3 https://gamer24h.com/forum/topic/custom-memory-allocators-pool-arena-stack-for-high-frequency-game-loops-competitive-benchmark-analysis-and-hardware-interactions/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:13:02 +0000 When you’re pushing a high-frequency game loop, the system allocator becomes a real bottleneck because malloc/free carries hidden costs: per-call heap locks, free-list traversal, and occasionally a brk/mmap syscall on the hot path. In our benc…

]]> 2d8ffa95e8a25ab27d9c15bece69b19e https://gamer24h.com/forum/topic/directx-12-ultimate-and-vulkan-low-overhead-draw-call-dispatch-edge-cases-failure-modes-and-root-cause-debugging/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:42:31 +0000 Great topic. The thing most people get wrong when chasing low-overhead dispatch is assuming the GPU is the bottleneck when it’s almost always the CPU-side validation and descriptor bookkeeping. In both DX12 and Vulkan, the classic failure mode…

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