Code Samples

• Introduction to DirectX's Direct3D 10
  
  • Use of geometry shaders to combat the small-batch performance problem
  • Enable render target masks
• Doom on AMD: Experiment with Multi-threaded Game Development (Justin Whitney)
  
  • Spin off different functions into separate threads (functional threading)
  • Split up same functionality across multiple threads (data-parallel threading)
  • Use OpenMP to fork processor-intensive activities into multiple parallel threads
  • Use "polymorphic" data types to take advantage of 64-bit computing without having to code for it directly
  • Order structure elements to eliminate inefficient padding
• Lock-Free Programming on AMD Multi-Core Systems (Steve Apiki)
  View a code sample for a lock-free data structure.
• Image Processing the Easy Way (Brent Hollingsworth)
  View code samples showing the difference between an image zoom function with and without using APL.
• APL_SampleConvert.zip
  Download this AMD Performance Library sample code for an image conversion utility.
• The Secret of Java Thread Pools (Anderson Bailey)
  
  • Routine of threads that count from 7 to 0
  • Code for thread pool
• OpenMP: More than Just Optimizing Loops (Anderson Bailey)
  Tips for using OpenMP pragmas to parallelize non-loop code and add barriers
• An introduction to analysis and optimization with AMD CodeAnalyst^TM
  
  • Classic C language implementation of matrix multiply
  • Improved matrix multiplication program
• Optimizing Your C/C++ Applications, Part 1 (Alan Zeichick)
• Optimizing Your C/C++ Applications, Part 2 (Alan Zeichick)
  Useful code samples to hand-tune your code for optimum performance.
• Fun with Intrinsics
  View two different versions of code that executes one cpuid function call and displays the results, one example in assembly language and one example using intrinsics.
  
• Using the Process Class to call command-line utilities
  View sample code to remotely execute code on a machine for which you have permissions over.
  
• Intrinsics and Casting
  Get tips and examples on how to port in-line assembler code to intrinsics.