This started as a $1700 bounty to optimize the CUDA Gaussian Splatting renderer. The PR delivers impressive performance improvements with a 2.4× speedup. Traini

This started as a $1700 bounty to optimize the CUDA Gaussian Splatting renderer. The PR delivers impressive performance improvements with a 2.4× speedup. Training time for 7 scenes from the mipnerf360 dataset dropped from 50 minutes to ~20 minutes without impacting final splat quality. Original bounty: https://github.com/MrNeRF/gaussian-splatting-cuda/issues/135 https://github.com/MrNeRF/gaussian-splatting-cuda/issues/135 PR: https://github.com/MrNeRF/gaussian-splatting-cuda/pull/245 https://github.com/MrNeRF/gaussian-splatting-cuda/pull/245