Feb 20 2018 Magnum 2018.02 released

The new Mag­num mile­stone brings WebGL 2.0 and WebAssembly, VR sup­port, lots of niceties for Win­dows users, iOS port, new ex­per­i­ment­al UI lib­rary, im­proved test­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies, sup­port for over 80 new as­set formats, new ex­amples and much more.

Mar 13 2014 How to draw a red square in Magnum — in one statement

After read­ing the “How to draw a red square in Qt Quick” blog post show­cas­ing the sim­pli­city of Qt API I thought it would be in­ter­est­ing to try some­thing sim­il­ar in Mag­num for com­par­is­on.

Dec 11 2013 Reducing C++ compilation time in Magnum: code optimizations

Large C++ pro­jects of­ten suf­fer with very long times for both full and in­cre­ment­al com­pil­a­tion, severely hurt­ing pro­ductiv­ity. The fol­low­ing series will over­view some tech­niques em­ployed in Mag­num to make it­er­a­tion times smal­ler, this art­icle fo­cuses on code-based op­tim­iz­a­tions.

Oct 09 2013 Static and dynamic polymorphism in Magnum

Thanks to gen­er­ic pro­gram­ming and oth­er fea­tures ex­clus­ive to C++ it is pos­sible to handle poly­morph­ism the most ef­fect­ive way for each use case. As a res­ult, vir­tu­al calls are in Mag­num used very spar­ingly.

Sep 08 2013 C++11 features in Magnum: Better memory management

Re­gard­less to what lan­guage you use, you al­ways need to think about memory man­age­ment. Garbage col­lect­ors might give you a sense that it’s done auto­ma­gic­ally, but to get more per­form­ance you need to have con­trol over heap us­age in code run­ning at 60 FPS. C++11 helps to avoid many heap al­loc­a­tions without sac­ri­fi­cing us­ab­il­ity.

Feb 08 2012 Introducing Corrade, a plugin management and utility library

Ori­gin­ally de­veloped for Kom­pas, this lib­rary provides both stat­ic and dy­nam­ic plu­gin man­age­ment with de­pend­ency sup­port and also vari­ous filesys­tem, port­ab­il­ity and de­bug­ging util­it­ies.