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Data-Oriented Demo: SOA, composition

Jonathan Blow · demo · Watch on YouTube

Software architecture & designProgramming language designSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

A live-coded demo by Jonathan Blow showing how to get object-system-style expressiveness in a data-oriented way, covering structure-of-arrays layouts and composition. It shows features of his Jai language that make programs fast.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as the practical demonstration of data-oriented design, including structure packing and switching between AOS and SOA.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “He gives a fantastic walkthrough on his approach to structure packing in the data-oriented demo[1].”

    Walkthrough of structure packing approach in data-oriented design

    tomyws, 2015-02 · Strong recommendation · in “The Lost Art of C Structure Packing”

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Topics: jai, soa vs aos, structure packing, jonathan blow, performance

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