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+**A dispatched action no longer allocates a record each time.** `dispatch A { ... }` made a fresh
+record for the queue, and Ludic frees nothing, so a system dispatching every frame (an input's
+`Move`, a frame's time) grew the program by a record a frame. The queue now keeps a list per
+action: a dispatch takes the next one (making one only when all are queued), fills every field
+as `new` would - given, or its default - and `drain_actions()` hands them all back once the queue
+is empty. A reducer reads its action only during the drain, so nothing sees a record after it is
+reused; keep what must last in the state, not the action. `ludic.base`'s `actions_test` holds a
+reused record getting its defaults back.