Vertex data interleaving on iPhone

In the PowerVR manual it says that you should interleave vertex data:

I tried this out on my engine and actually found no measurable improvement for static meshs. For skinned meshes it actually goes slower! Why? Because if you are doing software skinning, you have to reset the vertex buffer ever frame. If the vertex data isn’t interleaved then you can do this using memset for the postion and normal data, however if it’s interleaved you can’t because you would overwrite the texture co-ordinates, so you have to use a loop instead.

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