data-oriented-design – Tarik Billa

Is my understanding of AoS vs SoA advantages/disadvantages correct?

April 6, 2024 by Tarik

“traversing” just means looping over the data. And yes, you’re right about cache ways and collisions. 64B (cache line size) blocks of memory that are offset from each other by a large power of 2 map to the same set, and thus compete with each other for ways in that set, instead of being cached … Read more

What is data oriented design? [closed]

October 15, 2022 by Tarik

First of all, don’t confuse this with data-driven design. My understanding of Data-Oriented Design is that it is about organizing your data for efficient processing. Especially with respect to cache misses etc. Data-Driven Design on the other hand is about letting data control a lot of the behavior of your program (described very well by … Read more