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Oliver Maskery
022c6b1d34
Prevent creation of superfluous empty table (#16935)
# Objective

- To fix a tiny bug in `bevy_ecs::storage::Tables` that, in one case,
means it accidentally allocates an additional "empty" `Table`, resulting
in two "empty" `Table`s:
- The one pre-allocated empty table at index 0 whose index is designed
to match up with `TableId::empty()`
- One extra empty table, at some non-0 index, that does not match up
with `TableId::empty()`.
- This PR aims to prevent this extraneous `Table`, ensuring that
entities with no components in table-storage reliably have their
archetype's table ID be equal to `TableId::empty()`.

## Solution

### Background

The issue occurs because:

- `Tables` contains:
- `tables: Vec<Table>` - The set of all `Table`s allocated in the world.
- `table_ids: HashMap<Box<[ComponentId]>, TableId>` - An index to
rapidly lookup the `Table` in `tables` by a set of `ComponentId`s.
- When `Tables` is constructed it pre-populates the `tables` `Vec` with
an empty `Table`.
- This ensures that the first entry (index 0) is always the `Table` for
entities with no components in table storage.
- In particular, `TableId::empty()` is a utility that returns a
`TableId` of `0`.
- However, the `table_ids` map is not initialised to associate an empty
`[ComponentId]` with `TableId` `0`.
- This means, the first time a structural change tries to access a
`Table` for an archetype with 0 table components:
  - `Tables::get_id_or_insert` is used to retrieve the target `Table`
- The function attempts to lookup the entry in the `table_ids` `HashMap`
whose key is the empty `ComponentId` set
- The empty `Table` created at startup won't be found, because it was
never inserted into `table_ids`
- It will instead create a new table, insert it into the `HashMap`
(preventing further instances of this issue), and return it.

### Changes

- I considered simply initialising the `table_ids` `HashMap` to know
about the pre-allocated `Table`
- However, I ended up using the proposed solution discussed on Discord
[#ecs-dev](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/749335865876021248/1320430933152759958):
- Make `Tables::get_id_or_insert` simply early-exit if the requested
`component_ids` was empty.
- This avoids unnecessarily hashing the empty slice and looking it up in
the `HashMap`.
- The `table_ids` `HashMap` is not exposed outside this struct, and is
only used within `get_id_or_insert`, so it seems wasteful to defensively
populate it with the empty `Table`.

## Testing

This is my first Bevy contribution, so I don't really know the processes
that well. That said:
- I have introduced a little test that exercises the original issue and
shows that it is now resolved.
- I have run the `bevy_ecs` tests locally, so I have reasonable
confidence I haven't broken that.
- I haven't run any further test suites, mostly as when I tried to run
test suites for the whole project it filled my entire SSD with >600GB of
target directory output 😱😱😱
2024-12-22 23:04:32 +00:00
Zachary Harrold
1f2d0e6308
Add no_std support to bevy_ecs (#16758)
# Objective

- Contributes to #15460

## Solution

- Added the following features:
  - `std` (default)
  - `async_executor` (default)
  - `edge_executor`
  - `critical-section`
  - `portable-atomic`
- Gated `tracing` in `bevy_utils` to allow compilation on certain
platforms
- Switched from `tracing` to `log` for simple message logging within
`bevy_ecs`. Note that `tracing` supports capturing from `log` so this
should be an uncontroversial change.
- Fixed imports and added feature gates as required 
- Made `bevy_tasks` optional within `bevy_ecs`. Turns out it's only
needed for parallel operations which are already gated behind
`multi_threaded` anyway.

## Testing

- Added to `compile-check-no-std` CI command
- `cargo check -p bevy_ecs --no-default-features --features
edge_executor,critical-section,portable-atomic --target
thumbv6m-none-eabi`
- `cargo check -p bevy_ecs --no-default-features --features
edge_executor,critical-section`
- `cargo check -p bevy_ecs --no-default-features`

## Draft Release Notes

Bevy's core ECS now supports `no_std` platforms.

In prior versions of Bevy, it was not possible to work with embedded or
niche platforms due to our reliance on the standard library, `std`. This
has blocked a number of novel use-cases for Bevy, such as an embedded
database for IoT devices, or for creating games on retro consoles.

With this release, `bevy_ecs` no longer requires `std`. To use Bevy on a
`no_std` platform, you must disable default features and enable the new
`edge_executor` and `critical-section` features. You may also need to
enable `portable-atomic` and `critical-section` if your platform does
not natively support all atomic types and operations used by Bevy.

```toml
[dependencies]
bevy_ecs = { version = "0.16", default-features = false, features = [
  # Required for platforms with incomplete atomics (e.g., Raspberry Pi Pico)
  "portable-atomic",
  "critical-section",

  # Optional
  "bevy_reflect",
  "serialize",
  "bevy_debug_stepping",
  "edge_executor"
] }
```

Currently, this has been tested on bare-metal x86 and the Raspberry Pi
Pico. If you have trouble using `bevy_ecs` on a particular platform,
please reach out either through a GitHub issue or in the `no_std`
working group on the Bevy Discord server.

Keep an eye out for future `no_std` updates as we continue to improve
the parity between `std` and `no_std`. We look forward to seeing what
kinds of applications are now possible with Bevy!

## Notes

- Creating PR in draft to ensure CI is passing before requesting
reviews.
- This implementation has no support for multithreading in `no_std`,
especially due to `NonSend` being unsound if allowed in multithreading.
The reason is we cannot check the `ThreadId` in `no_std`, so we have no
mechanism to at-runtime determine if access is sound.

---------

Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Vic <59878206+Victoronz@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-12-17 21:40:36 +00:00
SpecificProtagonist
1a6b94c5e8
Remove flush_and_reserve_invalid_assuming_no_entities (#16460)
# Objective

`flush_and_reserve_invalid_assuming_no_entities` was made for the old
rendering world (which was reset every frame) and is usused since the
0.15 retained rendering world, but wasn't removed yet. It is pub, but is
undocumented apart from the safety comment.

## Solution

Remove `flush_and_reserve_invalid_assuming_no_entities` and the safety
invariants this method required for `EntityMeta`, `EntityLocation`,
`TableId` and `TableRow`. This reduces the amount of unsafe code &
safety invariants and makes #16047 easier.

## Alternatives
- Document `flush_and_reserve_invalid_assuming_no_entities` and keep it
unchanged
- Document `flush_and_reserve_invalid_assuming_no_entities` and change
it to be based on `EntityMeta::INVALID`


## Migration Guide
- exchange `Entities::flush_and_reserve_invalid_assuming_no_entities`
for `reserve` and `flush_as_invalid` and notify us if that's
insufficient

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Co-authored-by: Benjamin Brienen <benjamin.brienen@outlook.com>
2024-12-03 19:42:22 +00:00
Zachary Harrold
d70595b667
Add core and alloc over std Lints (#15281)
# Objective

- Fixes #6370
- Closes #6581

## Solution

- Added the following lints to the workspace:
  - `std_instead_of_core`
  - `std_instead_of_alloc`
  - `alloc_instead_of_core`
- Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use
formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A)
to split all `use` statements into single items.
- Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix
--allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and
intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically
(usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate
root).
- Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating
prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses.
- Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use
formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A)
to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling.
- Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use`
statements due to conditional compilation attributes.

## Testing

- Ran CI locally

## Migration Guide

The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher.

## Notes

- This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've
outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this
fails and someone else tries again in the future.
- Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy
contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std`
where possible.
- This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std`
options for Bevy.

---------

Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
2024-09-27 00:59:59 +00:00
hshrimp
35d10866b8
Rename init_component & friends (#15454)
# Objective

- Fixes #15451 

## Migration Guide

- `World::init_component` has been renamed to `register_component`.
- `World::init_component_with_descriptor` has been renamed to
`register_component_with_descriptor`.
- `World::init_bundle` has been renamed to `register_bundle`.
- `Components::init_component` has been renamed to `register_component`.
- `Components::init_component_with_descriptor` has been renamed to
`register_component_with_descriptor`.
- `Components::init_resource` has been renamed to `register_resource`.
- `Components::init_non_send` had been renamed to `register_non_send`.
2024-09-26 22:47:28 +00:00
Clar Fon
efda7f3f9c
Simpler lint fixes: makes ci lints work but disables a lint for now (#15376)
Takes the first two commits from #15375 and adds suggestions from this
comment:
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/15375#issuecomment-2366968300

See #15375 for more reasoning/motivation.

## Rebasing (rerunning)

```rust
git switch simpler-lint-fixes
git reset --hard main
cargo fmt --all -- --unstable-features --config normalize_comments=true,imports_granularity=Crate
cargo fmt --all
git add --update
git commit --message "rustfmt"
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix
cargo fmt --all -- --unstable-features --config normalize_comments=true,imports_granularity=Crate
cargo fmt --all
git add --update
git commit --message "clippy"
git cherry-pick e6c0b94f6795222310fb812fa5c4512661fc7887
```
2024-09-24 11:42:59 +00:00
Adam
9bda913e36
Remove redundent information and optimize dynamic allocations in Table (#12929)
# Objective

- fix #12853
- Make `Table::allocate` faster

## Solution
The PR consists of multiple steps:

1) For the component data: create a new data-structure that's similar to
`BlobVec` but doesn't store `len` & `capacity` inside of it: "BlobArray"
(name suggestions welcome)
2) For the `Tick` data: create a new data-structure that's similar to
`ThinSlicePtr` but supports dynamic reallocation: "ThinArrayPtr" (name
suggestions welcome)
3) Create a new data-structure that's very similar to `Column` that
doesn't store `len` & `capacity` inside of it: "ThinColumn"
4) Adjust the `Table` implementation to use `ThinColumn` instead of
`Column`

The result is that only one set of `len` & `capacity` is stored in
`Table`, in `Table::entities`

### Notes Regarding Performance
Apart from shaving off some excess memory in `Table`, the changes have
also brought noteworthy performance improvements:
The previous implementation relied on `Vec::reserve` &
`BlobVec::reserve`, but that redundantly repeated the same if statement
(`capacity` == `len`). Now that check could be made at the `Table` level
because the capacity and length of all the columns are synchronized;
saving N branches per allocation. The result is a respectable
performance improvement per every `Table::reserve` (and subsequently
`Table::allocate`) call.

I'm hesitant to give exact numbers because I don't have a lot of
experience in profiling and benchmarking, but these are the results I
got so far:

*`add_remove_big/table` benchmark after the implementation:*


![after_add_remove_big_table](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/46227443/b667da29-1212-4020-8bb0-ec0f15bb5f8a)

*`add_remove_big/table` benchmark in main branch (measured in comparison
to the implementation):*


![main_add_remove_big_table](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/46227443/41abb92f-3112-4e01-b935-99696eb2fe58)

*`add_remove_very_big/table` benchmark after the implementation:*


![after_add_remove_very_big](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/46227443/f268a155-295b-4f55-ab02-f8a9dcc64fc2)

*`add_remove_very_big/table` benchmark in main branch (measured in
comparison to the implementation):*


![main_add_remove_very_big](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/46227443/78b4e3a6-b255-47c9-baee-1a24c25b9aea)

cc @james7132 to verify

---

## Changelog

- New data-structure that's similar to `BlobVec` but doesn't store `len`
& `capacity` inside of it: `BlobArray`
- New data-structure that's similar to `ThinSlicePtr` but supports
dynamic allocation:`ThinArrayPtr`
- New data-structure that's very similar to `Column` that doesn't store
`len` & `capacity` inside of it: `ThinColumn`
- Adjust the `Table` implementation to use `ThinColumn` instead of
`Column`
- New benchmark: `add_remove_very_big` to benchmark the performance of
spawning a lot of entities with a lot of components (15) each

## Migration Guide

`Table` now uses `ThinColumn` instead of `Column`. That means that
methods that previously returned `Column`, will now return `ThinColumn`
instead.

`ThinColumn` has a much more limited and low-level API, but you can
still achieve the same things in `ThinColumn` as you did in `Column`.
For example, instead of calling `Column::get_added_tick`, you'd call
`ThinColumn::get_added_ticks_slice` and index it to get the specific
added tick.

---------

Co-authored-by: James Liu <contact@jamessliu.com>
2024-09-16 22:52:05 +00:00