Optimising Particles - Pooling etc.

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Dreamora
 #1
Constant lifetime is nice.
But:

1. Particles can go offscreen -> useless to update them
2. Particles can have alpha <= 0 -> useless to update them
so in both cases they better get killed early unless you want to ensure that low end system (casual systems) don't play your game.