Research on Benefits of Data-oriented Design

Student: Vilkov Kirill

Faculty: Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Software Engineering (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This paper is dedicated to the performance problems of classic object-oriented design in applications that process tons of data in real-time, for example, rendering, physics, or full feature game engines. The distinguishing feature of such applications is handling many objects with similar structure. The object may be represented in two ways: as a class in object-oriented style and as a simple record in a special data structure (table) in data-oriented style. In this work, those tho ways will be benchmarked, comparing frame time, code quality and development convenience. Also, this work reviews many data-oriented development patterns and ways to integrate it in modern programming languages.

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