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CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Path Tracing Three Ways: A Study of C++ Style”

CppCon · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesComputer graphics & renderingSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

Matt Godbolt builds a toy path tracer in C++ in three different styles and compares them on clarity, testability, compile time and run-time performance. The talk was given at CppCon 2019.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as a concrete demonstration of object-oriented versus cache-friendly design and the performance effects of branch misprediction.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 1 strong recommendations
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What HN commenters said

  1. “On OOP versus more cache friendly approaches and branch prediction this talk from CPPCon 2019 is great”

    Compares OOP and data-oriented design, with branch misprediction effects.

    meheleventyone, 2019-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times”

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Topics: c++, path tracing, data-oriented design, branch prediction, cache

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