- Only update shroud within the visible screen area, rather than the whole map. This improves performance on larger maps significantly when scrolling around since large portions of the shroud do not need to be updated.
- Provide methods in Shroud to return delegates to check for explored/visibility for tiles within a certain region. This allows it to return more efficient delegates whenever the region is within the map bounds, or shroud/fog is disabled. In the typical case where the region is in bounds and shroud/fog is enabled, the fast check is almost twice as fast as the slow check.
- Use the Shroud delegate functions in shroud rendering, frozen actors, minimap rendering and resource layer areas to provide a speedup since these areas of code can often take advantage of the fact they perform checks within the map boundary.
- Cache current element in CellRegionEnumerator to prevent repeated work if the element is accessed more than once.
- Decrease the size of elements in some arrays in hopes of reducing memory needs and improving cache hits.
- Extract an enum for edges rather than using magic numbers for everything.
- Remove duplicated code between FoggedEdges and ShroudedEdges by hosting the visibility function into a delegate.
- Make minimap methods more readable.
- Tidy formatting.
- Make some fields readonly.
- Remove unused usings.
Sheets carry a managed buffer of data that allows updates to be made without having to constantly fetch and set data to the texture memory of the video card. This is useful for things like SheetBuilder which make small progressive changes to sheets.
However these buffers are often large and are kept alive because sheets are referenced by the sprites that use them. If this buffer is explicitly null'ed when it is no longer needed then the GC can reclaim it. Sometimes a buffer need not even be created because the object using the sheet only works on the texture directly anyway.
In practise, this reduced memory consumed by such buffers from ~165 MiB to ~112 MiB (at the start of a new RA skirmish mission).
- Add separate ImmutablePalette and MutablePalette classes since the distinction is extremely important to HardwarePalette.
- Keep a cache of palettes in HardwarePalette to avoid reallocation them every time ApplyModifiers is called.
- Palettes that are not allowed to be modified are copied to the buffer once when added, rather than every time ApplyModifiers is called.
- The AdjustPalette method now takes a read-only dictionary to prevent the dictionary being messed with.
- Added a constant for the palette size to remove its usage as a magic number in several areas.
- The ColorPreviewManagerWidget is annoying in that it needs to actually permanently update a palette after it has been added. To allow this, HardwarePalette now allows a palette to be replaced after initialization. The WorldRenderer therefore now also updates the PaletteReference it created earlier with the new palette to prevent stale data being used elsewhere.
- Updated implementations to return a ReadOnlyList around an array (to reduce wasted memory from exposing lists or lazy enumerators around lists).
- Protect non-public ISpriteFrame classes by making them inner classes to prevent casting.
- Added an AsReadOnly extension method for lists.
- 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.
Hitting Ctrl+Shift+C will re-initialize the chrome provider,
reloading all chrome files instantly. Useful when changing the
UI.
Note: A new "RootWidget" was created to trap top-level (global)
shortcuts instead of putting everything in Widget.
