The previous asynchronous approach did not work particularly well,
leading to large janks when switching to custom maps or opening the
mission browser.
This commit introduces two key changes:
* Rule loading for WorldActorInfo and PlayerActorInfo is made
synchronous, in preparation for the next commit which will
significantly optimize this path.
* The full ruleset loading, which is required for map validation,
is moved to the server-side and managed by a new ServerMapStatusCache.
The previous syntax check is expanded to include the ability to run
lint tests.
Our SpriteFrameType names refer to the byte channel order rather than
the bit order, meaning that SpriteFrameType.BGRA corresponds to the
standard Color.ToArgb() etc byte order when the (little-endian) integer
is read as 4 individual bytes.
The previous code did not account for the fact that non-indexed Png
uses big-endian storage for its RGBA colours, and that SheetBuilder
had the color channels incorrectly swapped to match and cancel this out.
New SpriteFrameType enums are introduced to distinguish between BGRA
(little-endian) and RGBA (big-endian) formats, and also for 24bit data
without alpha. The channel swizzling / alpha creation is now handled
when copying into the texture atlas, removing the need for non-png
ISpriteLoader implementations to allocate an additional temporary array
and reorder the channels during load.
Shroud, access ProjectedCellLayer by array index over PPos index.
Performance improvement. Avoid the multiple PPos to array index
conversions in the same method call by calculating the cell
layer index once.
Background:
`Shroud.Tick` and `ProjectedCellLayer.Index(PPos puv)` shows up
in profile reports as one of the most expensive methods
(9% of CPU time).
In `Shroud.Tick` calls `ProjectedCellLayer.Index(PPos puv)` multiple
times for the same or different cell layers of the same dimension.
Improvement:
Benchmark results show an 0.5ms mean improvement in tick
time and 0.3 improvement in render time -
on a replay map of 1.12 min of play at max speed.
Render time:
render222052(bleed) render221934(this commit)
count 8144.000000 8144.000000
mean 11.410075 11.470100
std 5.004876 4.731463
min 3.450700 3.638400
25% 7.409100 7.015900
50% 12.410600 12.435900
75% 13.998100 14.242900
max 149.036200 149.656500
Tick time:
tick_time222043(bleed) tick_time221923(this commit)
count 2366.000000 2366.000000
mean 4.762923 4.275833
std 3.240976 3.206362
min 0.263900 1.653600
25% 4.145375 3.668600
50% 4.779350 4.240050
75% 5.232575 4.611775
max 85.751800 87.387100
Shroud.touchedCount to avoid Tick updates if no cells touched.
Avoids iterating over all map cells of the `touched` cell layer.
Tick time improvement of 40%+ - during at least the first two
minutes of gameplay.
During the first minutes of a game - out of every 1000 ticks
only 10-100 result in the Shroud - of any player - to be touched.
For certains player types (Neutral, Creep) less Shroud updates
are expected throughout a complete game.
Throughout a complete game human/AI players can also have no
Shroud touches during certain Ticks.
These config files often contain many repeated strings which result in different string references in memory. By using a pool, we can detect when the strings are equal and reuse an existing reference as strings are immutable.
The FromLines will now use a pool to de-duplicate strings for a single call. By allowing a pool to be provided as a parameter, we can reuse even more strings. The MapCache defines such a pool so that strings are reused across all maps in the cache for even more savings.
