Article: The Lost Art of Structure Packing

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Monday, 2 November 2026 at 08:36:56 UTC, FinalEvilution wrote:
> If your random number generation is a big bottleneck you could 
> try
> rewriting it using SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) 
> intrinsics.
> I've been using 
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/intel-intrinsics to
> write a very simple image codec and I've managed to get some 
> really
> good performance with it. Results may vary.

Another trick in the book is to bundle your allocations together, 
with padding for alignment.
dplug:core has MergedAllocation to help with that, but you can 
also do it manually like stb_image_resize2.h, it helps almost 
every time.