This is better for performance because these then don't need to be reevaluated every time they are called.
When encountering an unqualified function or constant reference, PHP will first try to locate a symbol in the current namespace by that name, and then fall back to the global namespace.
This short-circuits the check, which has substantial performance effects in some cases - in particular, ord(), chr() and strlen() show ~1500x faster calls when they are fully qualified.
However, this doesn't mean that PM is getting a massive amount faster. In real world terms, this translates to about 10-15% performance improvement.
But before anyone gets excited, you should know that the CodeOptimizer in the PreProcessor repo has been applying fully-qualified symbol optimizations to Jenkins builds for years, which is one of the reasons why Jenkins builds have better performance than home-built or source installations.
We're choosing to do this for the sake of future SafePHP integration and also to be able to get rid of the buggy CodeOptimizer, so that phar and source are more consistent.
Since 3.2 there have been some runtime performance issues related to garbage collection and dynamic AsyncWorker booting. This is partly because of GC being dumb about shutting down what it thinks are "unused" workers. A worker which has been idle for a single tick is considered the same as a worker which has been idle for hours. The result of this is that on active servers, workers would get shut down and then immediately restarted because of something like chunk sending. Since booting an async worker is frightfully expensive, this causes lag spikes, which is obviously bad.
This commit changes the GC mechanism to only shutdown workers which have not been used for the last 5 minutes.
this is perfectly fine to use, and preferable to getting a cyclic ref to the scheduler. TaskScheduler->cancelTask() does pretty much the exact same thing, and the scheduler internals are designed to deal with this anyway.
- Added `Internet::getIP()`, `Internet::getURL()`, `Internet::postURL()`, and `Internet::simpleCurl()`.
- Deprecated the corresponding functions in `Utils`. Updating to the new functions is as simple as replacing `Utils` with `Internet`, since this doesn't break backwards compatibility.
The deprecations should be catered for by plugin developers. These deprecated redirects will be removed no later than 4.0.0.
they got removed from the tasks array, but not from the queue (for performance reasons). The queue gets cleaned up by the heartbeat, but it was checking if there were things in the main array, not in the queue.
There are a couple of other bugs with cancelling tasks that this doesn't fix that are rather more complicated to deal with.
This changes how the AsyncPool works so that it does not immediately always start all of the workers in the pool.
Instead, workers will be started only when an idle worker was not found.
This allows for significant memory footprint reductions while idle.
In effect the async-workers setting in pocketmine.yml now dictates a _maximum_ pool size, not a fixed pool size.
This change breaks pretty much all API pertaining to synchronous task scheduling.
Significant changes:
- Server->getScheduler() has been removed
- Plugin->getScheduler() has been added - every plugin now has its own scheduler
- Because schedulers are now per-plugin, it is now unnecessary for PluginTask to exist because stopping plugin tasks on plugin disable is as simple as destroying the plugin's scheduler. Therefore PluginTask has now been removed and it is expected for things to now use the base Task class instead.
For the most part, plugins will simply need to change Plugin->getServer()->getScheduler()->... to Plugin->getScheduler()->...
Another highlight is that plugin tasks now no longer have global IDs - they are unique to each scheduler.
