Enabling data-oriented design

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 14:22:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I was looking at the most popular videos from CppCon and the 
> second-most popular from the last three years is the one on 
> data-oriented design:
>
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A
>
> The wikipedia page has a summary, basically focusing on cache 
> effects more, with links to articles:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
>
> Obviously the effects of cache are well-known here and other 
> places that focus on performance, but maybe there's more we can 
> do to enable this paradigm in the language.

I would not be too sure that this is something the language can 
help with.
It is more a question of the right tools.
And In theory features like mixins, introspection and property 
functions should make it possible to profile your memory-access 
patterns in a nice way.