Question Defer creation of NativeArray until previous job is complete

I'm relatively new to the Job System, and i'm trying to figure out how to best schedule multiple jobs, that do have dependencies.

In my example i have a bunch of points, i first filter out a bunch i am not interested in, and then i want to associate a score value with the ones that remain.

I understand that with IJobParallelForDefer i can schedule my second job, and it takes the length based on the indices from the first. However this job should output a NativeArray<float> of scores, and i dont know how i can make that of an appropriate length.

Is there any way to make a NativeArray's length based on the output of the previous NativeList? At the moment i simply make the array very large, or i could use NativeList as well. But i feel like it would be better if there was something like `AsDeferredJobArray`, where i could make an entirely new array of a different type, but its length tied to another NativeList.

 

Most people just use a NativeList and resize it in the job.

 

Thanks, makes some sense!