future enhancements:
- make gamemode an object containing information about abilities that players have in this gamemode (gamemodes are just predefined ability sets)
- get the magic numbers out of the API
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.
this is cleaner than leaving the player hanging for 5 seconds (which they'll often timeout from anyway). Banning the IP without kicking the player can often look like "lag" and end up getting brushed off as a performance issue.
Previously every thread using the logger had to inherit runtime-defined INI entries in order for the timezone to be set correctly. This removes that requirement.
PhpStorm can't see constructor usages when the class name is dynamic. This causes maintenance problems because cross-referencing constructors called like this doesn't show up dynamic calls.
- Separated player handling and creation from network interfaces
- Rewire disconnects to make them not be recursive
- Batching now uses sessions instead of players
- Fixed DisconnectPacket getting sent to players who disconnect of their own accord
DataPacketSendEvent and DataPacketReceiveEvent will no longer capture BatchPackets
In most places strings are now used instead of DataPackets, to remove limitations on what data can be sent to a network interface
Removed CraftingManager's cyclic dependency on Server
There is a lot more work to do aside from this, but this commit is intended to clean up what is necessary to fix the handling of BatchPacket.
This allows other threads to notify the main thread to wake it up while it's sleeping between ticks, allowing reduction of processing latency.
Currently only RakLib and the CommandReader threads utilize this, but it's planned to extend it to more things in the near future.
CommandReader is now event-driven instead of poll-based - the server will not poll the CommandReader thread for messages each tick anymore.
RakLib utilizes this mechanism to get packets processed without delays to lower latency.
This now adds an extra dependency - `pocketmine/snooze` library contains the meat of the code used for this. See the Snooze repository for details.
