The Old New Thing

Injected class names: The C++ feature you didn’t even realize that you were using

March 21, 2022 Mar 21, 2022 03/21/22

Raymond Chen

Simplifying the name of what you are.

Making our multiple-interface query more C++-like, part 2

March 18, 2022 Mar 18, 2022 03/18/22

Raymond Chen

Letting you specify which interfaces are required and which are optional.

Making our multiple-interface query more C++-like, part 1

March 17, 2022 Mar 17, 2022 03/17/22

Raymond Chen

Maybe we can write a nice wrapper.

Reducing chattiness by querying for multiple interfaces at once, part 2

March 16, 2022 Mar 16, 2022 03/16/22

Raymond Chen

You can just load them into the cache.

Reducing chattiness by querying for multiple interfaces at once, part 1

March 15, 2022 Mar 15, 2022 03/15/22

Raymond Chen

The multiple-query alternatives.

How expensive is PssCaptureSnapshot? How fast is it? How much memory does it consume?

March 14, 2022 Mar 14, 2022 03/14/22

Raymond Chen

Think of it as a copy-on-write copy, like the Volume Snapshot Service.

Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 5

March 11, 2022 Mar 11, 2022 03/11/22

Raymond Chen

Once more, with ARM feeling.

Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 4

March 10, 2022 Mar 10, 2022 03/10/22

Raymond Chen

Bringing out the big SIMD guns, for x86 at least.

Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 3

March 9, 2022 Mar 9, 2022 03/9/22

Raymond Chen

Jumpless conditionals via masking.