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Developer writes a working ray tracer in Brainfuck, then speeds up its interpreter

epestr reports speeding up the BF JIT interpreter and produces a render

2 Yesterday 8:33 PM · 17h ago · 2 posts · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 2 of 2

Responding in the comments, the author said the render could be made a reasonable benchmark by dropping to one sample per pixel at a quarter resolution, cutting the workload roughly 1600x from an estimated ~100 days to under one day, and reported having sped up the JIT interpreter, based on TSoding's JIT compiler, producing an actual rendered image described as 'slightly artsy/funny looking' in an update to the post.

“I've also been working on the JIT interpretor I used and managed to speed it up a lot and got a render out of it.”

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epestr Author of the Brainfuck ray tracerTSoding Author of the JIT compiler epestr's interpreter is based on

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