Go search for "data oriented programming". Mike Acton wrote a few interesting presos on it, GameDevADay blog has a few others, too. Yes, technically they have

Go search for "data oriented programming". Mike Acton wrote a few interesting presos on it, GameDevADay blog has a few others, too. Yes, technically they have different motivations for going the way they go, but the end results tend to coincide neatly :)