- Avoid calling string.Split twice in SprintFont.Measure.
- Change ActorsInBox method of ActorMap and ScreenMap to avoid allocating and intermediate list. As a bonus this allows the sequence to be lazily consumed. Also avoid LINQ in these methods.
- In FrozenUnderFog.TickRender, the method exits early if no players are visible so the attempt at lazy generation was not needed.
- Unwrap a LINQ Any call in ClassicProductionQueue.Tick.
- Merge some successive Where calls in ProximityCapturable into single predicates.
- Cache a predicate in ActorMap.
- Use short circuiting to skip a call to HasTrait in AttackBase.
- In AutoTarget.ScanForTarget, move the check for the scan time above the calculations since we can skip them if it's not time yet.
- In AutoTarget.ChooseTarget, merge four Where calls into one.
- Refactored PerfTimer to use less memory.
- Avoid using the PerfTimer in highly called methods DoTimed and RunActivity, instead tracking long ticks manually to reduce overhead and avoid memory allocations.
- Added some helper methods in PerfTimer to output information when a tick takes too long.
- Changed PerfTimer logging to output the time at the start of the line, and no longer truncate output per line.
- Settings.LongTickThreshold changed from TimeSpan to float and renamed to LongTickThresholdMs.
- Made private methods static where possible (runtime can elide checking the object for null).
- Declared attribute classes as sealed (allows reflection on attributes to complete faster).
- Moved some static cctor's into field initializers (static cctor's are slower than static field initializers).
- Made classes static if they contained only static methods (can't create instances of useless objects).
- Use inferable Exts.Lazy and not new Lazy<T>().
- Added required STAThread attribute to CrashDialog.
- Removed unused parameters in private methods.
- Added Serializable attribute to exceptions.
- Added parameter name in calls to ArgumentNullException.
- Use of as operator instead of is + cast.
- Changed (x as Foo).Bar anti-pattern into ((Foo)x).Bar. Results in sensible cast exceptions on error rather than null dereferences.
- Removed unused method in NullShader.
Targeted some methods that generated allocated a lot of memory in the main game loop:
- Actor.Render - Changed LINQ calls into equivalent loops. No allocation for delegates.
- Animation.Render - Returned an array rather than a yield expression. The array uses less memory than the complier generated enumerable.
- FrozenActor and FrozenUnderFog - Materialize the footprint into an array: The enumerable is not-trivial to evaluate is and evaluated many times inside the Tick function. The memory needed is minimal. Changed LINQ into equivalent loops to prevent delegate allocation. Should result in overall much faster calls.
- Widget.GetEventBounds - Changed LINQ calls into equivalent loops.
- MobileInfo.CanEnterCell - Changed LINQ calls into equivalent loops. Don't materialize list of blocking actors every time, instead enumerate them and only when they need to be checked.
- FrozenUnderFog.TickRender - Generate the renderables lazily and also remove a no-op Select call.
