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Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)
Picture this: Toward the end of the development cycle, your game crawls, but you don’t see any obvious hotspots in the profiler. The culprit? Random memory access patterns and constant cache misses. In an attempt to improve performance, you try to parallelize parts of the code, but it takes heroic efforts, and, in the…
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Software EngineeringGames & Graphics2021
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2021 | Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009) by tempodox | 236 | 359 |
| Dec 19, 2009 | Data-Oriented Design (Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP) by gruseom | 59 | 28 |
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