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Optimizing Ray Tracing Performance - Code Review

The Cherno via YouTube

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Explore techniques to optimize and accelerate code performance in this 39-minute video tutorial. Dive into a comprehensive code review of a ray tracing project, analyzing key components such as unique pointers, rendering processes, and multi-threading implementations. Learn to identify performance bottlenecks and develop strategies to enhance execution speed. Gain insights into efficient coding practices and discover a new approach to significantly improve the overall performance of the project.

Syllabus

- Intro
- Running the project
- Looking at the code
- Arrays wrapped in std::unique_ptr
- The Renderer
- Why is this so slow?
- The multi-threading
- The rendered image
- NEW PLAN: let's make this faster

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The Cherno

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