originally I introduced this to make it easier to implement the various APIs addPattern removePattern etc, but those were later removed in favour of simple getPatterns() and setPatterns(), allowing plugin developers to use ext-ds APIs to manipulate patterns.
However, ds poses a number of headaches because of mutability combined with by-ref semantics, which make it a pain to use these on the APIs because we can't guarantee that they won't be modified.
As much as arrays suck, they have two significant advantages over ext-ds: 1) they have copy-on-write semantics, and 2) they support PHP 8.0 without any extra work from me.
commit 1f42169f0f929958f7d68a68f194c6f3492b7eb4
Author: Dylan K. Taylor <odigiman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Dec 14 21:23:44 2020 +0000
... install it in the right fucking place
commit d2a88abeda5fa937d3f508c4e0300a949af97846
Author: Dylan K. Taylor <odigiman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Dec 14 21:14:21 2020 +0000
Build PHP using system libraries to reduce rebuild time
a non-generated chunk is now always represented by NULL. This forces the case of ungenerated chunks to be handled by all code, which is necessary because ungenerated chunks cannot be interacted with or modified in any meaningful way.
regardless of how long an async task takes to run, it will take a multiple of 50ms to get the result processed. This delay causes issues in some cases for stuff like generation, which causes locking of adjacent chunks, and async packet compression, which experiences elevated latency because of this problem.
This is not an ideal solution for packet compression since it will cause the sleeper handler to get hammered, but since it's already getting hammered by every packet from RakLib, I don't think that's a big problem.
there are some complications with coral plants due to the fact we're stuck with R12 worlds right now - and also coral fans are a major pain to implement due to how messed up the metadata is.
