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by CyberDildonics 3976 days ago
I'm actually really glad they got the paper out there as a small pdf (and I'm actually glad they compared it to other commercial renderers). The reason is that it shows very real world performance results. Not only that but cache coherency optimization results are shocking and illuminating to many people because it seems so counter intuitive when there technically aren't more instructions being ran.

Every paper I read now I am looking for all the things that were left out, how the comparisons have been changed for each scene to make that particular algorithm look good etc.

It answered a big question lingering in my mind that I haven't been able to actually try out.