this was achieved by storing binary representations of the blockstates, rather than the original BlockStateData.
Due to the insane object:data ratio of Tag objects (40:1 for ByteTag for example), modestly sized NBT can explode in memory footprint. This has been previously seen with the absurd 25 MB footprint on file load.
Previously, I attempted to mitigate this by deduplicating tag objects, but this was mitigating a symptom rather than addressing the cause.
We don't actually need to keep the NBT around in memory, since we don't actually use it for anything other than matching blockstates. In this case, we can allow the code to be possibly a little slower, since the lookup is anyway slow and the result will be cached.
In fact, using encoded ordered states as hash keys significantly improves the speed of lookups for stuff like walls, which have many thousands of states.
We keep around generateStateData(), since it's still possible we may need the BlockStateData associated, and it can be easily reconstructed from the binary-encoded representation in BlockStateDictionaryEntry.
since this is contextless (there's no way to know the version of the client requesting the MOTD), we can safely assume that this is not going to vary between protocol versions.
we can use SubChunkExplorerStatus to decide whether or not to update the local light array reference.
We also dereference some properties into local variables, because dereferencing properties is slow. Indirect property dereferences add an extra performance penalty for every layer.
often, protocol updates are done without consideration for the current world format version. We don't want to require the world support to be updated at the same time, since this might delay updates.
this significantly reduces the size of schemas when state remaps are used (see pmmp/BedrockBlockUpgradeSchema@85b83b360e).
in addition, this will likely offer a substantial performance and memory saving when walls get flattened, which will eventually happen.
closes#5724
this uses a (potentially bogus) assumption that the lowest mapped meta value associated with an ID is valid. I don't want to break this during a patch release, and this works for now.
In the future it would probably make more sense to bypass ItemTranslator entirely, and rely solely on the blockstate returned by RuntimeBlockMapping to fetch the correct ID. This is similar to how we serialize items for saving on disk in PM5.
this eliminates the performance issues described by #5719.
closes#5719
we may want to consider exposing a public API for this in the future, since it might be useful for plugins.
we can safely assume that:
- the inventory's max stack size won't change during the operation
- two items which stack together have the same max stack size
- the item's max stack size won't change during the operation
Since light population is required to make a chunk tickable, a chunk may not be tickable for some time if the async workers get backlogged.
The previous version of this system only cached the eligibility result if the result was a "yes", but we can also track it when it's a "no", rather than rechecking it every tick.
This change should improve performance in factions and similar gamemodes, which involve large maps with sparsely distributed players, where each player likely has an independent, non-overlapping ticking chunk circle.
We also ditch TickingChunkEntry in favour of multiple arrays to track the eligibility states. This allows us to avoid rechecking the (even cached) readiness of potentially thousands of chunks. If there are no ticking chunks to recheck, this reduces the cost of the selection process to zero.
this doesn't support editing the rear side of a sign, since the 1.12 format doesn't allow us to represent the rear text, and it would necessitate API breaks to support anyway.
However, we can quite trivially support APIs for the sign GUI, which plugins can use to enable editing signs. PocketMine-MP doesn't currently permit this, since it's currently an experimental feature in 1.20, but plugins can simply use Player->openSignEditor() to mimic it.
This is, however, a byproduct of the fact that APIs needed to be added in order to facilitate the use of OpenSignPacket in 1.19.80.
