As far as I can tell the P-number in the tooltable is completely
ignored in nonrandom toolchangers.

I can't help feeling that it would be nice if tool_prepare_pocket also
worked on nonrandom machines.
Consider a lathe with a 6-position changer and a stock of 20 tools.
You could leave the tools in the table, and just shuffle the pockets.

Setting RANDOM_TOOLCHANGER = 1 means that the tool_pocket_prepare pin
does something useful, but then the tools juggle themselves about.

Is there an excellent reason to prefer a tool array with entries
packed at the top for nonrandom changers? It seems like it might just
be a misguided optimisation to save iterating through all 56 indices
every time?

-- 
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