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- About
- Supported memory layouts
- AOS (Array Of Structures)
- SOA (Structure of Arrays)
- Hybrid
- Status
- Related packages
- Installation
- Dependencies
- Usage examples
- API
- Authors
- License

About

SOA & AOS memory mapped structured views with optional & extensible serialization.

$3

#### AOS (Array Of Structures)

!AOS memory block diagram

#### SOA (Structure of Arrays)

!SOA memory block diagram

#### Hybrid

!Hybrid memory block diagram

Status

ALPHA - bleeding edge / work-in-progress

Search or submit any issues for this package

See tests for usage. This package might be merged with and/or superseded
by
@thi.ng/ecs.

Related packages

- @thi.ng/ecs - Entity Component System based around typed arrays & sparse sets
- @thi.ng/malloc - ArrayBuffer based malloc() impl for hybrid JS/WASM use cases, based on thi.ng/tinyalloc
- @thi.ng/simd - WASM based SIMD vector operations for batch processing
- @thi.ng/unionstruct - C-style struct, union and bitfield read/write views of ArrayBuffers
- @thi.ng/vector-pools - Data structures for managing & working with strided, memory mapped vectors
- @thi.ng/vectors - Optimized 2d/3d/4d and arbitrary length vector operations, support for memory mapping/layouts

Installation

``bash
yarn add @thi.ng/soa
`

ESM import:

`ts
import * as soa from "@thi.ng/soa";
`

Browser ESM import:

`html

`

JSDelivr documentation

For Node.js REPL:

`js
const soa = await import("@thi.ng/soa");
`

Package sizes (brotli'd, pre-treeshake): ESM: 1.44 KB

Dependencies

- @thi.ng/api
- @thi.ng/binary
- @thi.ng/errors
- @thi.ng/transducers-binary
- @thi.ng/vectors

Note: @thi.ng/api is in _most_ cases a type-only import (not used at runtime)

Usage examples

Three projects in this repo's
/examples
directory are using this package:

| Screenshot | Description | Live demo | Source |
|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| | Entity Component System w/ 100k 3D particles | Demo | Source |
| | 3D arcball controller to rotate the camera view of a colored cube | Demo | Source |
| | WebGL multi-colored cube mesh | Demo | Source |

API

Generated API docs

TODO

Authors

- Karsten Schmidt

If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:

`bibtex
@misc{thing-soa,
title = "@thi.ng/soa",
author = "Karsten Schmidt",
note = "https://thi.ng/soa",
year = 2019
}
``

License

© 2019 - 2026 Karsten Schmidt // Apache License 2.0