# Objective
- Adjust `bevy_utils` to make it `no_std` compatible
- Partially replaces #6581
- Contributes to #8161
- Contributes to #6370
## Solution
Added `alloc` and `std` features to `bevy_utils` (`std` is enabled by
default), allowing the crate's use in `no_std` contexts.
## Testing
- CI passed locally.
- Used `bevy_utils` in a `no_std` crate as an experiment and compiled
successfully.
## Migration Guide
If you were importing `bevy_utils` and setting `default_features` to
`false`, but relying on elements which are now gated behind the `std` or
`alloc` features, include the relevant feature in your `Cargo.toml`.
## Notes
- Bevy already includes a single `no_std` crate, `bevy_ptr`, so there is
precedent for this change.
- As `bevy_utils` is widely used across the rest of Bevy, further work
to make Bevy `no_std` compatible would be blocked on this crate, if such
work was to be undertaken.
- Most of the changes in this PR are just the removal of an unnecessary
call to `to_string()` within unit tests.
# Objective
- `Parallel::drain()` has an unused type parameter `B` than can be
removed.
- Caught [on
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692572690833473578/1259004180560085003)
by Andrew, thanks!
## Solution
- Remove it! :)
## Testing
- `Parallel::drain()` should still function exactly the same.
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## Changelog
- Removed unused type parameter in `Parallel::drain()`.
## Migration Guide
The type parameter of `Parallel::drain()` was unused, so it is now
removed. If you were manually specifying it, you can remove the bounds.
```rust
// 0.14
// Create a `Parallel` and give it a value.
let mut parallel: Parallel<Vec<u8>> = Parallel::default();
*parallel.borrow_local_mut() = vec![1, 2, 3];
for v in parallel.drain::<u8>() {
// ...
}
// 0.15
let mut parallel: Parallel<Vec<u8>> = Parallel::default();
*parallel.borrow_local_mut() = vec![1, 2, 3];
// Remove the type parameter.
for v in parallel.drain() {
// ...
}
```
# Objective
- bevy usually use `Parallel::scope` to collect items from `par_iter`,
but `scope` will be called with every satifified items. it will cause a
lot of unnecessary lookup.
## Solution
- similar to Rayon ,we introduce `for_each_init` for `par_iter` which
only be invoked when spawn a task for a group of items.
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## Changelog
- added `for_each_init`
## Performance
`check_visibility ` in `many_foxes `
~40% performance gain in `check_visibility`.
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Co-authored-by: James Liu <contact@jamessliu.com>
# Objective
There's a repeating pattern of `ThreadLocal<Cell<Vec<T>>>` which is very
useful for low overhead, low contention multithreaded queues that have
cropped up in a few places in the engine. This pattern is surprisingly
useful when building deferred mutation across multiple threads, as noted
by it's use in `ParallelCommands`.
However, `ThreadLocal<Cell<Vec<T>>>` is not only a mouthful, it's also
hard to ensure the thread-local queue is replaced after it's been
temporarily removed from the `Cell`.
## Solution
Wrap the pattern into `bevy_utils::Parallel<T>` which codifies the
entire pattern and ensures the user follows the contract. Instead of
fetching indivdual cells, removing the value, mutating it, and replacing
it, `Parallel::get` returns a `ParRef<'a, T>` which contains the
temporarily removed value and a reference back to the cell, and will
write the mutated value back to the cell upon being dropped.
I would like to use this to simplify the remaining part of #4899 that
has not been adopted/merged.
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## Changelog
TODO
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Co-authored-by: Joseph <21144246+JoJoJet@users.noreply.github.com>
