Blocks were being overwritten in the writebatch which hadn't yet been set, so reading them from the world yielded air blocks instead of trunk, allowing the generation to overwrite blocks which should have been logs.
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 was observable by planting a sapling underneath an existing tree and punching it with bone meal.
This change will also prevent trees generating too close together.
This was the cause of many inconsistency and broken world bugs. In the future (once we switch to paletted chunks) this won't be possible anyway. For now, some temporary API is provided to allow modifying chunkdata directly, but it is required that **both** must be provided.
This is a major change to the way block metadata is handled within the PM core. This separates variant metadata (which really ought to be part of the ID) from state metadata, and in a couple of cases flattens separate states of blocks together.
The result of this is that invalid variants can be much more easily detected, and additionally state handling is much cleaner since meta is only needed at the serialize layer instead of throughout the code.
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.
it's the generator's responsibility to know about the seed, not the chunkmanager's. This now reduces the complexity of implementing and using a chunkmanager.
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.
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.
- Doesn't need to be pre-populated with biomes prior to calculating the heatmap - now population of biomes is entirely dependent on the lookup function, improving consistency
- Uses an abstract class method for lookup instead of callback (use anonymous class instead)
- Faster because the heatmap is directly populated with biomes instead of biome IDs, removing an unnecessary lookup.
