[deathflute]

I like your point of data oriented design. Do you have any suggestions/links on how I can learn more about it? Thanks.

[corysama]

Unfortunately, not much. The first page of google hits are all pretty good, but short. Also, Mike Acton of Insomniac has ranted about it a couple of times.

http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/04/perform...

http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2009/08/roundup...

There are a lot of component-design links here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1901251/component-based-g...

I don't know if any of them address batch-processing though...