Ludic's ECS is already pool-based — the allocator recycles freed entity slots through a freelist (L_alloc pops @L_freen before growing @L_entc), and component storage is fixed per-entity arrays, so spawn/despawn churn (bullet-hell/horde) does no per-spawn heap allocation and cannot fragment. Expose that with a Pool.* namespace so a game can watch reuse: Pool.live (alive now), Pool.free (recycled slots waiting), Pool.reserved (high-water — stays flat across a steady spawn/despawn loop, proving reuse not reallocation), Pool.capacity (the fixed cap). Zero-cost inline reads of the existing counters. Example pool.ludic proves the key property: after despawn+respawn, Pool.reserved() stays 3 (freed slot reused) — prints 0 0 3 3 0 2 1 3 0 3 1. 4 docs pages. Full suite 118/0, goldens byte-identical, fixpoint holds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# pool.ludic — entity pooling stats (#80). Ludic's ECS already recycles freed
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# entity slots through a freelist (a despawned slot is reused by the next spawn
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# before any new slot is taken), so bullet-hell / horde spawn+despawn does no
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# per-spawn allocation and cannot fragment. Pool.* exposes the counters so a game
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# can watch the reuse. The key proof: after despawn + respawn, Pool.reserved()
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# does NOT grow — the freed slot was reused, not reallocated.
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#
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# Deterministic; a full run prints: 0 0 3 3 0 2 1 3 0 3 1
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program PoolDemo {
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property Mob { hp: int = 0 }
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model M { Mob }
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function bi(b: bool) -> int { if b { return 1 }; return 0 }
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entry {
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print(Pool.reserved()) # 0 — nothing allocated yet
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print(Pool.live()) # 0
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spawn M { Mob { hp: 1 } }
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spawn M { Mob { hp: 2 } }
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spawn M { Mob { hp: 3 } }
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print(Pool.reserved()) # 3
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print(Pool.live()) # 3
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print(Pool.free()) # 0 — no freed slots yet
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let pm = World.prop_id("Mob")
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let e = World.query_next(pm, 0)
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despawn e
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print(Pool.live()) # 2
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print(Pool.free()) # 1 — one slot recycled onto the freelist
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spawn M { Mob { hp: 4 } } # reuses the freed slot
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print(Pool.reserved()) # 3 — NO new slot allocated (pooled, not reallocated)
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print(Pool.free()) # 0 — the freelist slot was drawn back down
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print(Pool.live()) # 3
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print(bi(Pool.capacity() >= 3)) # 1 — there is a fixed entity cap to budget against
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}
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}
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