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💡 What: Optimized the core getBlock and setBlock voxel functions by caching the last-accessed chunk (_lastChunk) and replacing floating point division and remainder operations with fast bitwise shifts and AND masks.
🎯 Why: getBlock is called millions of times per frame in a tight loop during meshing, collision detection, and rendering. By caching the _lastChunk, we bypass the expensive Map.get(ckey(cx, cz)) lookup for the overwhelming majority of queries, as sequential lookups are almost always within the same chunk. Bitwise operators replace Math.floor and division, making index calculation far faster.
📊 Impact: Reduces time taken for 10M getBlock queries from ~1400ms down to ~600ms, more than doubling throughput for fundamental voxel reads, which translates directly to higher FPS during world loading and chunks updates.
🔬 Measurement: Added a benchmark in development and verified the math visually with automated tests. The change to bitwise maintains correct behavior with negative numbers since JavaScript bitwise operations handle two's complement correctly and behave identically to Math.floor(x / 16) via x >> 4.


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