alt Hacker News> you can add fields to your 1M monsters with little impact.
Great for this access pattern, but I wouldn't make a general statement like that. This is the same thing as row-oriented vs column-oriented databases, OLTP vs OLAP. SoA is weak if you are adding/removing monsters more often than accessing a single "hot" field.
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keynha • today at 3:20 PM
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> SoA is weak if you are adding/removing monsters more often than accessing a single "hot" field.
Why is that? Genuinely curious. Does "weak" mean that it performs worse than AoS, or that the gains aren't as significant versus AoS?