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Andrew Kelley: A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD)
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Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, presents practical data-oriented design techniques for shrinking memory footprint and making programs cache friendly. He ends with a case study of how these ideas sped up the Zig compiler.
HN cites it as one of the best talks on data-oriented design, applying struct-of-arrays and compact data layouts to a real compiler.
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