Having implemented sparse sets myself, I don't think this is correct.

Aug 11, 2020

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…d on the information the article itself supplied a couple paragraphs above of how sparse sets work. A single entity stored in a component sparse set, no matter if it's index is 0 or 2 billion, will still only use memory the size of a single component, it is not allocating everything from 0 to that point, it is not an array, think of it as a more ef…

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Having implemented sparse sets myself, I don't think this is correct. You may store the component only once, but the sparse array needs to be large enough so that I can use the entity id as array index.

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