# Objective
- The previous implementation of automatically inserting sync points did
not consider explicitly added sync points. This created additional sync
points. For example:
```
A-B
C-D-E
```
If `A` and `B` needed a sync point, and `D` was an `ApplyDeferred`, an
additional sync point would be generated between `A` and `B`.
```
A-D2-B
C-D -E
```
This can result in the following system ordering:
```
A-D2-(B-C)-D-E
```
Where only `B` and `C` run in parallel. If we could reuse `D` as the
sync point, we would get the following ordering:
```
(A-C)-D-(B-E)
```
Now we have two more opportunities for parallelism!
## Solution
- In the first pass, we:
- Compute the number of sync points before each node
- This was already happening but now we consider `ApplyDeferred` nodes
as creating a sync point.
- Pick an arbitrary explicit `ApplyDeferred` node for each "sync point
index" that we can (some required sync points may be missing!)
- In the second pass, we:
- For each edge, if two nodes have a different number of sync points
before them then there must be a sync point between them.
- Look for an explicit `ApplyDeferred`. If one exists, use it as the
sync point.
- Otherwise, generate a new sync point.
I believe this should also gracefully handle changes to the
`ScheduleGraph`. Since automatically inserted sync points are inserted
as systems, they won't look any different to explicit sync points, so
they are also candidates for "reusing" sync points.
One thing this solution does not handle is "deduping" sync points. If
you add 10 sync points explicitly, there will be at least 10 sync
points. You could keep track of all the sync points at the same
"distance" and then hack apart the graph to dedup those, but that could
be a follow-up step (and it's more complicated since you have to worry
about transferring edges between nodes).
## Testing
- Added a test to test the feature.
- The existing tests from all our crates still pass.
## Showcase
- Automatically inserted sync points can now reuse explicitly inserted
`ApplyDeferred` systems! Previously, Bevy would add new sync points
between systems, ignoring the explicitly added sync points. This would
reduce parallelism of systems in some situations. Now, the parallelism
has been improved!
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