John "God" Carmack: C++ with a C flavor is still the best (also: Python performance "keeps hitting me in the face")

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  • libCat

    🐈‍⬛ A runtime for C++26 w/out libC or POSIX. Smaller binaries, only arena allocators, SIMD, stronger type safety than STL, and value-based errors!

  • I'm working on this! https://github.com/Cons-Cat/LibCat

  • Vc

    SIMD Vector Classes for C++

  • I personally like the ideas in Parallelism v2 TS, which is available in for libstdc++ 11 onwards. The reference implementation is a library named Vc (afaik Vc is the most popular SIMD library for C++), and this has also been implemented in recent versions of HPX.

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  • HPX

    The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency

  • I personally like the ideas in Parallelism v2 TS, which is available in for libstdc++ 11 onwards. The reference implementation is a library named Vc (afaik Vc is the most popular SIMD library for C++), and this has also been implemented in recent versions of HPX.

  • highway

    Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

  • I haven't used Google's library Highway, which afaik has all of the same benefits. It's just that the Vc-style code will presumably be part of the STL in the future. I'm surprised it wasn't in C++23.

  • DOOM

    DOOM Open Source Release

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