Some code sketchings for an idea I have to do a presentation on the effects of different coding styles on design and performance. It's a trivial path tracer (an extended homage to smallpt.cpp) implemented three different ways. It's not meant to be complete, or correct. Or even performant in a traditional sense (at the time of writing it has no bounding volume hierarchy acceleration).
"Ways" of implementing the code:
- Traditional OO with interfaces and virtual calls
- Functional style using std::variant, optional, ranges
- Data-oriented design