* Optimize statbar drawing
The texture name of the statbar is a string passed by value.
That slows down the client and creates litter in the heap
as the content of the string is allocated there. Convert the
offending parameter to a const reference to avoid the
performance hit.
* Optimize texture cache
There is an unnecessary temporary created when the texture
path is being generated. This slows down the cache each time
a new texture is encountered and it needs to be loaded into
the cache. Additionally, the heap litter created by this
unnecessary temporary is particularly troublesome here as
the following code then piles another string (the resulting
full path of the texture) on top of it, followed by the
texture itself, which both are quite long term objects as
they are subsequently inserted into the cache where they can
remain for quite a while (especially if the texture turns
out to be a common one like dirt, grass or stone).
Use std::string.append to get rid of the temporary which
solves both issues (speed and heap fragmentation).
* Optimize animations in client
Each time an animated node is updated, an unnecessary copy of
the texture name is created, littering the heap with lots of
fragments. This can be specifically troublesome when looking
at oceans or large lava lakes as both of these nodes are
usually animated (the lava animation is pretty visible).
Convert the parameter of GenericCAO::updateTextures to a
const reference to get rid of the unnecessary copy.
There is a comment stating "std::string copy is mandatory as
mod can be a class member and there is a swap on those class
members ... do NOT pass by reference", reinforcing the
belief that the unnecessary copy is in fact necessary.
However one of the first things the code of the method does
is to assign the parameter to its class member, creating
another copy. By rearranging the code a little bit this
"another copy" can then be used by the subsequent code,
getting rid of the need to pass the parameter by value and
thus saving that copying effort.
* Optimize chat console history handling
The GUIChatConsole::replaceAndAddToHistory was getting the
line to work on by value which turns out to be unnecessary.
Get rid of that unnecessary copy by converting the parameter
to a const reference.
* Optimize gui texture setting
The code used to set the texture for GUI components was
getting the name of the texture by value, creating
unnecessary performance bottleneck for mods/games with
heavily textured GUIs. Get rid of the bottleneck by passing
the texture name as a const reference.
* Optimize sound playing code in GUIEngine
The GUIEngine's code receives the specification of the sound
to be played by value, which turns out to be most likely a
mistake as the underlying sound manager interface receives
the same thing by reference. Convert the offending parameter
to a const reference to get rid of the rather bulky copying
effort and the associated performance hit.
* Silence CLANG TIDY warnings for unit tests
Change "std::string" to "const std::string &" to avoid an
unnecessary local value copy, silencing the CLANG TIDY
process.
* Optimize formspec handling
The "formspec prepend" parameter was passed to the formspec
handling code by value, creating unnecessary copy of
std::string and slowing down the game if mods add things like
textured backgrounds for the player inventory and/or other
forms. Get rid of that performance bottleneck by converting
the parameter to a const reference.
* Optimize hotbar image handling
The code that sets the background images for the hotbar is
getting the name of the image by value, creating an
unnecessary std::string copying effort. Fix that by
converting the relevant parameters to const references.
* Optimize inventory deserialization
The inventory manager deserialization code gets the
serialized version of the inventory by value, slowing the
server and the client down when there are inventory updates.
This can get particularly troublesome with pipeworks which
adds nodes that can mess around with inventories
automatically or with mods that have mobs with inventories
that actively use them.
* Optimize texture scaling cache
There is an io::path parameter passed by value in the
procedure used to add images converted from textures,
leading to slowdown when the image is not yet created and
the conversion is thus needed. The performance hit is
quite significant as io::path is similar to std::string
so convert the parameter to a const reference to get rid of
it.
* Optimize translation file loader
Use "std::string::append" when calculating the final index
for the translation table to avoid unnecessary temporary
strings. This speeds the translation file loader up
significantly as std::string uses heap allocation which
tends to be rather slow. Additionally, the heap is no
longer being littered by these unnecessary string
temporaries, increasing performance of code that gets
executed after the translation file loader finishes.
* Optimize server map saving
When the directory structure for the world data is created
during server map saving, an unnecessary value passing of
the directory name slows things down. Remove that overhead
by converting the offending parameter to a const reference.
* Fix a crash on Android with Align2Npot2
glGetString can be NULL. If stored in a string it triggers a SIGSEGV.
Instead do a basic strstr and verify the pointer
* Better Align2Npot2 check (+ performance)
* Code modernization: subfolders
Modernize various code on subfolders client, network, script, threading, unittests, util
* empty function
* default constructor/destructor
* for range-based loops
* use emplace_back instead of push_back
* C++ STL header style
* Make connection.cpp readable in a pointed place + typo
* Various code style fixes
* Use range based for loops
* Use empty instead of empty objects
* Use C++11 default keyword for trivial constructors and destructors
* Drop some useless casts
* Use emplace_back instead of push_back to improve performance of some vectors push
* Add Device3D class which will contain IrrlichtDevice interface
move getSupportedVideoDrivers to Device3D
Add Device3D singleton & use it in various places
Rename Device3D to Rendering engine & add helper functions to various device pointers
More singleton work
RenderingEngine owns draw_load_screen
move draw functions to RenderingEngine
Reduce IrrlichtDevice exposure and guienvironment
RenderingEngine: Expose get_timer_time() to remove device from guiEngine
Make irrlichtdevice & scene manager less exposed
* Code style fixes
* Move porting::getVideoDriverName, getVideoDriverFriendlyName, getDisplayDensity, getDisplaySize to RenderingEngine
Fix XORG_USED macro -> RenderingEngine + create_engine_device from RenderingEngine constructor directly
* enum paralax => enum parallax
* Fix progressbar for Android
Fixes#5599Fixed#5403
* draw_load_screen: use texturesource
this permits to unify texture loading code
* scale progress bar
* Add gl version check for GL_OES_texture_npot. This fixed the texture on loading screen
* Remove two sanity checks pointed by @celeron55
* sfan5 comments + android ratio fixes
Adds the possibility to colorize item stacks based on their metadata.
In the item/node definition you can specify palette (an image file)
and color (fallback color if the item has no palette or metadata).
Then you can add palette_index to the metadata.
Dropped itemstacks with different colors do not merge.
* Some performance optimizations
This is globally removing some memory useless copy
* use a const ref return on std::string Settings::get to prevent data copy on getters which doesn't need to copy it
* pass some stack created strings to static const as they are not modified anywhere
* Camera: return nametags per const ref instead of a list pointer, we only need to read it
* INodeDefManager: getAll should be a result ref writer instead of a return copy
* INodeDefManager: getAlias should return a const std::string ref
* Minimap: unroll a Scolor creation in blitMinimapPixersToImageRadar to prvent many variable construct/destruct which are unneeded (we rewrite the content in the loop)
* CNodeDefManager::updateAliases: prevent a idef getall copy
* Profiler: constness
* rollback_interface: create real_name later, and use const ref
* MapBlockMesh updateFastFaceRow: unroll TileSpec next_tile, which has a cost of 1.8% CPU due to variable allocation/destruction,
* MapBlockMesh updateFastFaceRow: copy next_tile to tile only if it's a different tilespec
* MapBlockMesh updateFastFaceRow: use memcpy to copy next_lights to lights to do it in a single cpu operation
While experimenting with entities I ran into this unresolvable
error where the server is sending some texture that the client
crashes on. The crash prevents the client from ever reconnecting,
resulting in a server that has to use clearobjects.
We shouldn't crash but just ignore the object and move on.
```
0x00000000004dc0de in TextureSource::generateImagePart (this=this@entry=0x7118eb0, part_of_name="[applyfiltersformesh",
baseimg=@0x7fffffffbe98: 0x9f1b010) at /home/sofar/git/minetest/src/client/tile.cpp:1744
1744 u32 xscale = scaleto / dim.Width;
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000004dc0de in TextureSource::generateImagePart (this=this@entry=0x7118eb0, part_of_name="[applyfiltersformesh",
baseimg=@0x7fffffffbe98: 0x9f1b010) at /home/sofar/git/minetest/src/client/tile.cpp:1744
```
After reconnecting, the client now can connect without issues
and displays an error message:
```
ERROR[Main]: generateImagePart(): Illegal 0 dimension for part_of_name="[applyfiltersformesh", cancelling.
ERROR[Main]: generateImage(): Failed to generate "[applyfiltersformesh"
ERROR[Main]: Irrlicht: Invalid size of image for OpenGL Texture.
```
- Increase ContentFeatures serialization version
- Color property and palettes for nodes
- paramtype2 = "color", "colored facedir" or "colored wallmounted"
"[sheet:WxH:X,Y" assumes the base image is a tilesheet with W*H tiles
on it and crops to the tile at position X,Y. Basically it works
like "[verticalframe" but in 2D.
For testing, I combined the four default_chest images into one.
Inverts the given channels of the base image.
Mode may contain the characters "r", "g", "b", "a".
Only the channels that are mentioned in the mode string will be inverted.
Changes:
* Fix indentation.
* Pass strings by const reference.
* Merge Strfnd and WStrfnd into one class instead of copying them.
* Remove trailing spaces.
* Fix variable names.
* Move to util.
* Other miscellaneous style fixes.
* Rename everything.
* Strip J prefix.
* Change UpperCamelCase functions to lowerCamelCase.
* Remove global (!) semaphore count mutex on OSX.
* Remove semaphore count getter (unused, unsafe, depended on internal
API functions on Windows, and used a hack on OSX).
* Add `Atomic<type>`.
* Make `Thread` handle thread names.
* Add support for C++11 multi-threading.
* Combine pthread and win32 sources.
* Remove `ThreadStarted` (unused, unneeded).
* Move some includes from the headers to the sources.
* Move all of `Event` into its header (allows inlining with no new includes).
* Make `Event` use `Semaphore` (except on Windows).
* Move some porting functions into `Thread`.
* Integrate logging with `Thread`.
* Add threading test.
Move debug streams to log.cpp|h
Move GUI-related globals to clientlauncher
Move g_settings and g_settings_path to settings.cpp|h
Move g_menuclouds to clouds.cpp|h
Move g_profiler to profiler.cpp|h
