Author Archives: LostVector

I’ve been too busy to update the devlog recently but I have in fact posted new content to Bowmaster Winter Storm every Friday for the past few weeks. Go check it out if you haven’t taken a look lately.

www.lostvectors.com/winterstormbeta

I’ve had some recent major triumphs, some mini defeats and mini triumphs lately. In the not so distant past I had some issues with a memory leak in Winter Storm. After much investigation and some thrashing I decided it was time to do some much needed refactoring. At this time I still had no real idea where the cause of the leak was. Continue reading →

Yeah, so I’ve been working a lot and have been writing several devlogs but haven’t had a chance to post them until now. In short, I’ve been so busy working that I tend to use every last minute of the night performing "just one more test." I’m taking this short… Continue reading →

This memory testing is quite the bug hunt. I’ve been testing between two computers and two browsers. I’ve been patting down every game object for illegal memory stashes. Offending code blocks are stripped and searched and sometimes even completely exterminated. Progress is being made little by little as I debug and optimize while innocent code is made to suffer inconvenient slow performing test operations.

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So after doing some further tests I was able to pinpoint code that would result in memory leaks. The code itself looked harmless and functionally it worked.

I narrowed a leak to a “doSomething” function in my Util class. I knew it caused an error because when I turned the function into a no-op the leak went way. So I knew that something in that code was causing the leak. But just looking at it, it made no sense whatsoever why there was a leak.

Example original code:

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