Physically Based Rendering looks great. I know that one of the authors - Matt Pharr - also has some great blog posts about "ispc", a compiler he wrote while at

Physically Based Rendering looks great. I know that one of the authors - Matt Pharr - also has some great blog posts about "ispc", a compiler he wrote while at Intel: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html. If he was involved in a book in an area I was thinking about studying I would buy it in a heartbeat