This greatly improves GC performance by being more intelligent about how it collects garbage tasks. It knows that if X task in the queue is not finished, none of the tasks behind it can be finished either, so there's no point checking them.
This also presents the opportunity to cleanup a lot of async pool internals, so I've taken it and torched a lot of garbage.
This is now self-maintaining and doesn't rely on the async pool to wipe its ass on task completion. Instead, the garbage collector will cause thread-local data to be automatically released when the async task is garbage-collected on the main thread.
This brings two plugin-breaking changes: AsyncTask->onCompletion() and AsyncTask->onProgressUpdate() no longer accept Server parameters.
This now allows for the functionality of AsyncPool and AsyncTask to be tested outside of a Server.
This is a leftover from when it was necessary to pass complex data to the AsyncTask constructor in order to have it locally-stored. Since this has now been superseded by storeLocal(), it doesn't make sense for this parameter to exist anymore.
- 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.
This commit contains quite a few breaking changes with respect to how AsyncTasks are handled. This is necessary to allow separation of the ServerScheduler and the AsyncPool, because in the future the ServerScheduler may be removed and instead there will be isolated per-plugin sync-task schedulers - but we cannot have every plugin with its own worker pool for memory usage reasons if nothing else.
The following things have changed:
- ServerScheduler: scheduleAsyncTask(), scheduleAsyncTaskToWorker(), getAsyncTaskPoolSize(), increaseAsyncTaskPoolSize() and similar methods have all been removed. Additionally the static \$WORKERS field has been removed.
- Server: added API method getAsyncPool(). This grants you direct access to the server's AsyncPool. Calls to getScheduler()->scheduleAsyncTask() and scheduleAsyncTaskToWorker() should be replaced with getAsyncPool()->submitTask() and submitTaskToWorker() respectively.
