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make ComputeBuffer job friendly

Discussion in 'Entity Component System' started by laurentlavigne, Jan 21, 2018.

  1. laurentlavigne

    laurentlavigne

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    at this time, SetData takes an array, jobs only output NativeArray, which then need to be ToArray-ified first, but ToArray and CopyTo allocates an array internally, and this makes the GC sad.

    I think the Job team will take the minimalist route and add a non alloc CopyTo, but in case they don't, it would help a lot to have SetData (NativeArray).
     
    laurentlavigne, Jan 21, 2018
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  2. LennartJohansen

    LennartJohansen

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    Joachim confirmed that this will all happen, but it is early in beta. Officially they did not add the job system yet...
     
    LennartJohansen, Jan 21, 2018
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  3. laurentlavigne

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    good to let me know, I'll stop chasing the windmills
    I missed that, was it in the mailing list?
     
    laurentlavigne, Jan 21, 2018
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  4. LennartJohansen

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    One of the other forum threads...

    Lennart
     
    LennartJohansen, Jan 22, 2018
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