News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous. Parent comment

Re:Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous by itamarst on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:47PM (#22003523)
Are you familiar with data-oriented design? The game-developer equivalent of the array-processing scientific programmers do.

I suspect if you look at how they do things you'd find some domain-specific design patterns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous by angus-g on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:59PM (#22017794)
Is there any further reading on this in the scientific programming space?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous by itamarst on Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:53PM (#22022218)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming might be starting point.
[ Parent | on HN ]