Data Oriented Design Resources

A curated list of awesome data oriented design resources.

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• Data Oriented Design
  • Presentations
  • Blog Posts
  • Videos
  • Other

Presentations

• Practical Examples In Data Oriented Design - Niklas Frykholm
• Introduction To Data Oriented Design - DICE
• A Step Towards Data Orientation - Johan Torp
• Memory Optimization - Christer Ericson
• Typical C++ Bullshit - Mike Acton
• Three Big Lies - Mike Acton

Blog Posts

• What is Data-Oriented Game Engine Design? - David Davidović
• Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming - Tony Albrecht
• Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP) - Noel Llopis
• Data-Oriented Design Now And In The Future - Noel Llopis
• An Example in Data-Oriented Design: Sound Parameters - Niklas Frykholm
• Visual Scripting the Data-Oriented Way - Niklas Frykholm
• Building a Data-Oriented Entity System (part 1) - Niklas Frykholm
• Building a Data-Oriented Entity System (Part 2: Components) - Niklas Frykholm
• Building a Data-Oriented Entity System (Part 3: The Transform Component) - Niklas Frykholm
• Building a Data-Oriented Entity System (Part 4: Entity Resources) - Niklas Frykholm
• Allocation Adventures 1: The DataComponent - Niklas Frykholm
• Allocation Adventures 2: Arrays of Arrays - Niklas Frykholm
• Musings on Data-Oriented Design - Steve Anichini
• Is Data-Oriented Design a Paradigm? - Steve Anichini
• Data Oriented Luddites - Tom Forsyth
• The Latency Elephant - Tony Albrecht
• OOP != classes, but may == DOD - roathe.com
• Data Locality - http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com
• Adventures in data-oriented design – Part 1: Mesh data - Stefan Reinalter
• Adventures in data-oriented design – Part 2: Hierarchical data - Stefan Reinalter
• Adventures in data-oriented design – Part 3a: Ownership - Stefan Reinalter
• Adventures in data-oriented design – Part 3b: Internal References - Stefan Reinalter
• Adventures in data-oriented design – Part 3c: External References - Stefan Reinalter
• Adventures in data-oriented design – Part 4: Skinning it to 11 - Stefan Reinalter
• Data-Oriented Hash Table - Nathan Reed

Videos

• Data-Oriented Design and C++ - Mike Acton
• Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures - Chandler Carruth
• Data-Oriented Design - Sean Middleditch
• Native Code Performance and Memory: The Elephant in the CPU - Eric Brumer
• CPU Caches and Why You care - Scott Meyers

Other

• What Is Data Oriented Design - stackoverflow.com
• Mike Acton's review of OgreNode.cpp, revealing some common OOP game engine development pitfalls
• Data Oriented Design - plus.google.com
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory - Ulrich Drepper
• Data Locality - Robert Nystrom