Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Why memory is still an issue

The particle system that we are currently showing is probably running well enough on some computers, but note that a large number of the variables that we have created hold data that will never change once we've initialized them. Now, generally in programming we would mark a variable that wouldn't change as const, but we don't set the variable until we read from a file. We could potentially make the variables static, but there's also the chance that we may want to have more particle systems in the future and I don't want to create an archetype for each one.

If we continue to spawn many particles, the memory that it takes up will increase and we will be wasting valuable space in memory that we could be using for ...