Monthly Archives: December 2013


Visual Studio, unaligned store frustration

So, I fired the profiler and SkeletonInstance::resetToPose appeared in the hotspot list. Since it’s not theoretically a performance sensitive function, that felt strange. I looked at the generated code, and to my surprise, it was awful. These pictures summarize it all. It affects Visual Studio 2008, 2012, 2013 (and probably […]


Microsoft, we need to talk about Visual Studio

I really hope Microsoft employees (from the Visual Studio team) or the management read this post. We all are internally talking about it, but don’t say it out loud. I don’t like pretending speaking for everyone else, Here’s a shocker: latest revisions of Visual Studio are failing to satisfy the […]