Tools Engineer: Core Game Tools Development - Subjects of Interest Programming

Techniques

• Instrumented profilers, hit counters, time accumulators
• Obfuscated handle systems (vs. pointer)
• Pointer-to-implementation/PIMPL benefits and costs
• Delegates, multicast delegates and events
• Retained mode vs. immediate mode graphical user interfaces
• Event-loop programming w/ all nonblocking I/O routines
• Type reflection/introspection for program automation
• Program binding time (bind at compile time, link time, run time)
• Out-of-schema (blind) data retention, version interop
• Object-relational-mapping (and pitfalls with polymorphism)
• Runtime compiled code

Determinism

• Definition and the desire to achieve it
• Typical pitfalls in C/C++

Concurrency

• The difference between concurrency and parallelism
• Job/task graph systems
• Fibers and implications for stack, TLS risks