Optimizing struct layouts is cool. but if your motivation is to pack more monsters in your game definitely consider transposing your row oriented monster struct

Optimizing struct layouts is cool. but if your motivation is to pack more monsters in your game definitely consider transposing your row oriented monster struct into a column oriented entity using Entity Component System. Example framework: https://github.com/skypjack/entt?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/skypjack/entt?tab=readme-ov-file It has benefits besides memory/cache optimizations. It organizes logic in a much more composable way that is friendly for reuse.