I feel like "struct of arrays" style coding has really taken off in the past decade, and seems to be the best way to maximize memory operations these days.
Its not so much that "structure packing" is dead, as much as a wide variety of techniques have been developed above-and-beyond just simply structure packing. There's many ways to skin a cat these days, and packing your structures more intelligently is just one possible data optimization.
Its not so much that "structure packing" is dead, as much as a wide variety of techniques have been developed above-and-beyond just simply structure packing. There's many ways to skin a cat these days, and packing your structures more intelligently is just one possible data optimization.