Data-Oriented Design - Links and Thoughts

Warning! Some information on this page is older than 6 years now. I keep it for reference, but it probably doesn't reflect my current knowledge and beliefs.

Thu
06
Jan 2011

In April 2008 I've written an essay "Fanatyzm obiektowy" (in Polish, it means "Object-Oriented Fanaticism"). I've always believed there is something wrong with object-oriented programming, that it simply doesn't meet its own objectives and so following it blindly as an ideology not only a programming language mechanics has many pitfalls. Now I'm glad that recently a concept of "Data-Oriented Design" (DOD) emerged and gained popularity among game developers. Here is my try to aggregate all important information on this subject that can be found on the Internet:

Slides:

Blog entries:

Other:

If you know any other good readings on this subject, please leave a comment. I'll update my list.

As far as I can see, focusing more on data instead of objects gives a number of benefits for the code:

Of course DOD doesn't exist in the void. It's related to many other concepts and you can find many good sources of knowledge about each one. Some of them are:

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