A really small bug fix is presented here - with a lot of Trekkie banter to fluff the piece out... and why not?

A common programming mistake is fixed here, this time in the FBX importer

The fifth part in our series looking at coding errors found by using the static code analysis tool PVS-Studio

In this post we present an optimization coming from removing some pointless null pointer checks. The way that we found this was quite interesting

When a process takes a long time to complete, it makes absolute sense to put some time limit checks in so that you're not starving other work. What you don't want to do, of course, is to have those checks slow your original task down further by any considerable amount - here, we found that exactly this was happening .. so we present a solution

We took a look at the inlining of a certain part of the codebase and were shocked with what we found... we then went about improving it

ToString() is one of the most commonly called functions in UE4 - certainly across the editor, the content cooker and such. Here we take a look at it and make it over twice as fast

Here we present several small code fixes and improvements in a nice little package

UE4's Package Versioning is a bit of a dark art for most.. here we try to remove some of the confusion around it - while, again, offering some improvements through optimization

With performance critical editor and cooker code, it's well advised to consider performance when adding tests for rare errors. Here we take a look at this and show by, by considering the CPU pipeline and code cache, a simple change can yield a significant performance improvement without reducing stability

Macros can often be useful to make certain programming tasks simpler - but they can also cause hidden performance headaches that might otherwise be avoided. Here we look at one of those - and how to improve it

The fourth part in our series looking at coding errors found by using the static code analysis tool PVS-Studio

We take a look at some list generating code with UE4 - and why it was completely pointless

We use the debugger's disassembly view to look at FPaths::IsRelative() after it shows up in our profiling tests. Then we optimize it

The third part in our series looking at coding errors found by using the static code analysis tool PVS-Studio

We present here a way to improve cook times by reducing the frequency of garbage collection

We found CreateExportHash() was showing up in profiling the cooker - so we optimized it. Our findings and changes are presented here

The second part in our series looking at coding errors found by using the static code analysis tool PVS-Studio

We present an optimization that removes a significant amount of memory churn from the animation code

The first part in our series looking at coding errors found by using the static code analysis tool PVS-Studio

Here we implement a scratch buffer to reduce temporary memory churn passing through PhysX

While profiling a game's runtime, we found that 40% of memory allocations were coming from a single function. The fix/optimization involves adding a single character

We present a tiny little fix for a simple - but serious - coding error in the UE4 codebase