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it may be wise to use explicit schemas instead of using the SoA objects themselves as the schema, and then pass the SoA objects into the reader/writer functions themselves. this would allow reading/writing from/to different SoA objects that have the same schemas

e.g.

const n = 100

const Vector3SoA = { x: new Float32Array(n), y: new Float32Array(n), z: new Float32Array(n) }

const Vector3Schema = { x: Float32Array, y: Float32Array, z: Float32Array }

const config = [Vector3Schema]

const objects = [Vector3SoA]

const write = createDataWriter(config)
const read = createDataRead(config)

const indices = [1,2,3,4]
const data = write(objects, indices)

read(objects, data)

It would be useful to be able to pass an ArrayBuffer to the data writer function. This allows more flexibility in where the data is written and avoids unnecessary copying and slicing.