May 7, 2008

Chris Cox starts a performance blog

If it's in Photoshop and it goes fast, there's a very good chance that Chris Cox has had something to do with it.  Chris is, among a great many other things, the go-to guy for optimizing many functions in the app.  (At various times we've known there's some kind of crazy-exotic Apple hardware in Chris's office--something that would emerge many months later as the G5, etc.--and that he's busily tuning the app for it but can't tell us any of the details.)  In any case, he has started a blog on C++ performance.  If that's up your alley, I recommend subscribing to the feed.

 

[Semi-irrelevant personal aside: After so many years of consulting Chris to learn about HDR imaging, color management, GPUs vs. CPUs, and so on, I'm taking some pleasure in sharing my meager (yet superior) knowledge of CSS with him, hipping him to groovy tools like Xyle scope.  I've gotta enjoy the moment while it lasts!]

Posted by John Nack at 10:17 PM on May 7, 2008

Comments

Chris Cox — 12:10 AM on May 8, 2008

I must bow to your wisdom, oh great guru of the blog....

Jim Pogozelski — 5:13 AM on May 8, 2008

Ooooh, I thought you meant 'Performance". (Does he play music or dance or something?)

Chris Cox — 12:13 PM on May 8, 2008

Does the way I play 2 keyboards and mice at once count? (Rick Wakeman would be jealous)

No, this is about software performance: choreographing the dance of bits inside your machine, moving the tempo of your app from a slow Adagio to a good Allegro and sometimes Prestissimo, or trying to find why one section is still playing Larghissimo.

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