When are structs the answer?

Question

I\'m doing a raytracer hobby project, and originally I was using structs for my Vector and Ray objects, and I thought a raytracer was the perfect situation to use them: you

Answer 1

My own ray tracer also uses struct Vectors (though not Rays) and changing Vector to class does not appear to have any impact on the performance. I'm currently using three doubles for the vector so it might be bigger than it ought to be. One thing to note though, and this might be obvious but it wasn't for me, and that is to run the program outside of visual studio. Even if you set it to optimized release build you can get a massive speed boost if you start the exe outside of VS. Any benchmarking you do should take this into consideration.