Pádraig

Pádraig is the traditional Irish name for Saint Patrick. A fifth-century Romano-British missionary, he is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. Captured by pirates at age 16, he spent six years enslaved in Ireland before escaping, later returning as a bishop to minister to the Irish people.

C++

C++ is preferred for writing media codecs because it provides uncompromised low-level hardware control, superior integration with legacy C-based multimedia libraries (like FFmpeg), and optimal execution speeds required for real-time video processing.

Tracy Profiler

Tracy Profiler is considered the premier tool for measuring media codec performance because it offers real-time, nanosecond-precision frame profiling with minimal runtime overhead. Media codecs require strict frame-rate budgets (e.g., 16.6ms per frame for 60 FPS), and Tracy excels at capturing these tight, recurring timelines visually.