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		assbuttbuttass on Nov 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) A common technique is to use a "struct of arrays" approach, rather than an "array of structs" This can save a lot on padding, and greatly increase the cache efficiency

mhh__ on Nov 1, 2023 [–]

Unless you have a tag column that's not the same thing

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