> move all memory management into centralized systems (like rendering, physics, animation, …), with the systems being the sole owner of their memory allocations

> move all memory management into centralized systems (like rendering, physics, animation, …), with the systems being the sole owner of their memory allocations > when creating an item, only return an ‘index-handle’ to the outside world, not a pointer to the item > in the index-handles, only use as many bits as needed for the array index > only convert a handle to a pointer when absolutely needed, and don’t store the pointer anywhere DataDraw, anyone? http://datadraw.sourceforge.net http://datadraw.sourceforge.net