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XNA/C# – StringBuilder to String with no garbage
In my day job I’m a bit of a stickler with memory. I’m at times approaching borderline OCD I think with budgets and fragmentation. Having a good handle on memory usage on a game is very important;...
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XNA/C# – Avoiding garbage when working with StringBuilder
In my previous coding post, I spoke about some issues with converting a mutable StringBuilder string back to a regular ‘string’ object without generating garbage. Well, specifically without requiring...
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XNA/C# – A garbage-free StringBuilder Format() method
So, another entry in this StringBuilder and garbage series… This time I’m exploring the Format() method, and implementing a new alternative that does not generate any garbage. The existing...
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XNA/C# – Thread.CurrentThread is slow on Xbox 360
I’ve still a few more XNA articles I’ve been planning to write. The next one was to involve some threading code, and in the process of creating the article I hit upon something that I found...
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XNACPC – An Amstrad CPC Emulator for the Xbox 360
A few weeks ago I mentioned on twitter that I was working on an Amstrad CPC emulator, written in XNA. There are plenty of the things for the PC and various other consoles, but not one for the Xbox 360...
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XNA/C# – Changes in the Xbox 360 Compact Framework
A few months back I was partway through an article about XNA. I was going to cover how to implement efficient “Thread Local Storage” on the Xbox 360. Back in Game Studio v3.1 I found that the...
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XNA/C# – [ThreadStatic] attribute is broken on Xbox 360
Continuing on from my last XNA post, I had a go at using [ThreadStatic] on the Xbox. Specifically this attribute was not available with XNA 3.1, but was introduced in the new 4.0 version. At first...
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XNA/C# – Thread-local storage on Xbox 360
I initially begun writing this particular article back in April. Back then with XNA 3.1 to play with, there was actually a method of ‘thread-local storage’ for Xbox. With the release of XNA 4.0,...
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XNA/C# – StringBuilder changes in XNA 4.0
So yeah, this is another post detailing a change made in the latest version of XNA. This one was inspired by some comments on a previous blog post of mine: “StringBuilder to String with no garbage”. A...
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XNACPC: Xbox 360 Amstrad CPC Emulator, released!
On and off during the last month or so, I’ve worked toward finishing a project I wrote about last year. It’s an Amstrad CPC Emulator, written in C# using the Microsoft XNA library. I’ve written plenty...
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