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This reduces point cache sizes dramatically especially if particle life time is small compared to total simulation length. For example with the settings: particle amount = 10000, start = 1, end = 200, life = 10, cache step = 1, the unoptimized blend file size (compressed) was a little over 22 Mb and with this optimization the file is a little under 2 Mb (again compressed). In addition to saving memory/disk space this also probably speeds up reading from cache, since there's less data to read. As an additional fix the memory cache size (displayed in cache panel) is now calculated correctly.
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