The latest version of Cobalt has several major changes, which I'm
looking forward to taking advantage of in the coming months:
- The Lua interpreter has been split up from the actual LuaClosure
instance. It now runs multiple functions within one loop, handling
pushing/popping and resuming method calls correctly.
This means we have a theoretically infinite call depth, as we're no
longer bounded by Java's stack size. In reality, this is limited to
32767 (Short.MAX_VALUE), as that's a mostly equivalent to the limits
PUC Lua exposes.
- The stack is no longer unwound in the event of errors. This both
simplifies error handling (not that CC:T needs to care about that)
but also means one can call debug.traceback on a now-dead coroutine
(which is more useful for debugging than using xpcall).
- Most significantly, coroutines are no longer each run on a dedicated
thread. Instead, yielding or resuming throws an exception to unwind
the Java stack and switches to a different coroutine.
In order to preserve compatability with CC's assumption about LuaJ's
threading model (namely that yielding blocks the thread), we also
provide a yieldBlock method (which CC:T consumes). This suspends the
current thread and switches execution to a new thread (see
SquidDev/Cobalt@b5ddf164f1 for more
details). While this does mean we need to use more than 1 thread,
it's still /substantially/ less than would otherwise be needed.
We've been running these changes on SwitchCraft for a few days now and
haven't seen any issues. One nice thing to observe is that the number of
CC thread has gone down from ~1.9k to ~100 (of those, ~70 are dedicated
to running coroutines). Similarly, the server has gone from generating
~15k threads over its lifetime, to ~3k. While this is still a lot, it's
a substantial improvement.
- Keep track of the number of created and destroyed coroutines for each
computer.
- Run coroutines with a thread pool executor, which will keep stale
threads around for 60 seconds. This substantially reduces the
pressure from short-lived coroutines.
- Update to the latest Cobalt version.
- Bump MinecraftForge version so we don't crash on load. Oh boy, all
the deprecation warnings.
- Inject IBundledEmitter and IBundledReceiver capabilities onto all
TileGenerics.
- Register a IBundledRedstoneProvider instance for IBundledEmitter.
This is a preliminary for updating to 1.13, as many of the name changes
apply to both. This will make it harder to remain consistent with
actual CC, though that will be less of a consideration when 1.13 hits.
- Add additional maven metadata and strip dependencies
- Shift ICommand registration into the proxy, to avoid class loading
issues. This is probably rather temperamental, but classloading
always is.
- Ensure pocket computers and turtles are distinguished by upgrades and
computer family.
- Ensure disks are distinguished by colour.
- Hide treasure disks from the list
- Convert most recipes to JSON
- Add JSON factories for impostor and turtle recipes.
- Several mappings changes
- Migrate to Forge's new registry system
Updated the source code to the version shipped as the 1.80pr0 alpha
release. Also removed some unnecessary files from the LuaJ subfolder
which were bulking up the repository.
