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Fixed point math in pure CPP

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This post has been previously published on 2007/Oct/31: due to my move to another server i’m now in the process to manually recover the comments for this article. Fixed!

Some time ago i was asked to publish my implementation of fixed-point math, mainly regarding embedded architectures where IEEE floating point computations have really bad performances. What [...]

An AS3 profiler

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This post has been previously published on 2007/Oct/17: due to my move to another server i’m now in the process to manually recover the comments for this article. Fixed!
I’m currently working on an early-stage, more of a proof-of-concept thing, but i needed to know more about the code performances: googling for an ActionScript profiler just [...]

Hydra considerations

While experimenting with the AIF toolkit i noticed some glitches that could be taken into consideration by the AIF team before going final with the release:

it seems that image-type function parameters are bound to the selected images according to their alphabetical order, instead of the natural user-defined one: for instance, create a new kernel [...]

Hydra is here!

Finally the Adobe team released the Hydra’s tech-preview package, available for download right here: reading the documentation, there are some cool things that aren’t expected to work in the Flash player, anyway Hydra signify a huge step forward for the Flash technology, enabling the next Flash Player for custom bitmap filters, blend modes and a [...]

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