[ODE] center of mass
Geoff Carlton
gcarlton at iinet.net.au
Thu Jan 12 19:44:31 MST 2006
Its a bit of a trick.
I noticed that geom "pos" and "R" pointers always point to elements of
an implicit posr structure. I combined the pointers into one, making a
saving of one pointers worth of space. The geom now has two posr
pointers: the final transform, and any offset transform (or null for
none). So memory is back to square one. Anything that wants to grab
the geom position always uses the "final" posr without any extra checks.
The change propagates through a fair lot of code, and looks a bit
scary. However g->posr->R[4] isn't actually an extra indirection, its
just an additional constant offset from the pointer address.
Geoff
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