Managing Decoupling Part 4 -- The ID Lookup Table

Today I am going to dig deeper into an important and versatile data structure that pops up all the time in the BitSquid engine -- the ID lookup table. I have already talked about the advantages of using IDs to refer to objects owned by other systems, but let me just quickly recap. IDs are better than direct pointers because we don’t get dangling references if the other system decides that the obje