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So emotive!
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Encoding normals.
Given that Staxel is made out of blocks and blocks have 6 sides which always point in the same direction before rotation i could encode the face normals in a single byte as long as any rotation is done through the worldmatrix and not baked into the vertices.
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IEquatable
I was profiling when i noticed a large number of allocations of a type i recognized to be a struct.
This was surprising because structs are value types and so not normally heap allocated unless some autoboxing happens, so after a bit of digging it turned out that by default, if you use a struct as a key in a Dictionary it gets boxed for equality operations.
Implementing IEquatable quickly fixed this issue.