Add C++ struct-of-arrays library and example #197
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This adds two new types to the SDK under
soa.h
:soa::Array<T, s>
is an array ofT
of sizes
, but where the k'th byte of eachT
are stored contiguously.soa::Ptr<T>
is a pointer to an element ofsoa::Array
.The include-eable
soa-struct.h
specializessoa::Ptr<T>
for a struct type, including its members as distinctsoa::Ptr<T>
instances that point to the members.Using this library allows global arrays of structs to be accessed using the absolute indexed addressing mode if it's always known at compile-time what portion of the struct is being accessed. This is generally true if there are no pointers into the array; in that common case, using this library can produce a huge speedup.
See the included example for more details; the library is quite expansive in practice, so the examples walk through what you can and can't do with it.