Iterating on all entities in jobs that have a specific component w/o receiving an actual component

There's IJobForEachWithEntity<T> that receives a component that is required to be iterated upon.
Is there a way to iterate only entities without fetching an actual component to the job?

E.g. which method would look like:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void Execute(Entity entity, int index) {
2. }

instead of

Code (CSharp):

1. private struct DisposeTempJob : IJobForEachWithEntity<T> {
2.             public void Execute(Entity entity, int index, ref T c0) {  
3.             }
4. }

I'm assuming that it has at least some overhead of sending refs vs sending only entity array.

What I'm trying to achieve is to remove entities at the end of the simulation frame that are "marked" by the specific component.

 

I've actually already posted a thread requesting that feature back in April
https://forum.unity.com/threads/req...ith-no-icomponentdata-type-parameters.658912/

 

Well, I've marked component right now as [ReadOnly].
Probably IJobChunk is the best candidate for this kind of iteration. But IJobForEachWithEntity is too convienient to use in comparison to IJobChunk.

 

The performant way to do that is to query for that specific component and then use a batch command like:

Code (CSharp):

1. EntityCommandBuffer.DestroyEntity(EntityQuery);
2.  

 

Oof. That's exactly what I've wanted. Thanks!

 

I actually requested this Oct last year and Joachim replied but nothing ever seem to came of it.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/any-chance-of-ijobprocessentity.569665/

I never bothered to follow it up as while it'd be nice for my perfectionism, it really doesn't make a big difference.