Nick Sabalausky:
- Lumping all data/functionality for a single "object" instance into the same physical chunk of memory causes problems for parallelization. And that's increasingly problematic on modern processors which work best when operating as "streaming-data processors". (See "Entity/Component Systems"[1] - There are good reasons videogame development has mostly switched from OOP to entity/component systems.)
Sometimes OOP is handy, for GUIs and other situations, but if today a more horizontal placement of fields is more efficient when high performance is needed, then perhaps a creative programmer has to find the courage to step out of his/her/hir language constraints to invent a better language. Is it possible to invent a language more fit for this different kind of data layout?
Bye, bearophile
