the c# job system lacking atomic increment style output list/array

Maybe I'm missing something but I cant see anyway to output variable length data from the job system.

Like how ComputeBuffers can multithread append to a list (so long as it doesnt overflow the initial allocation).

This is pretty essential for any useful work.

For example creating a list of indicies for items to be destroyed from the input array data.

Create a variable length output list of vector3's of positions to spawn partical systems.

Essentially anything that needs to build an output list that doesnt match the source data length..

 

Until they implement something like that:

How about creating an array of same size of the original and write in only the elements you want to touch? You will need this either way in case you want to touch all the input elements.
They probably will do the same when they implement such a thing.

 

@LurkingNinjaDev thats no good at all, if I'm traversing a million items and outputting 20 items, I dont want to have to search a million items for the 20 flagged as having interesting data..

Thanks superpig, it looks like filter jobs are coming, I tried the NativeList and nativeQueue provided by the zip of latest Native containers, but sadly neither provide parallel write support