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2022-08-22C#: Move marshaling logic and generated glue to C#Ignacio Roldán Etcheverry
We will be progressively moving most code to C#. The plan is to only use Mono's embedding APIs to set things at launch. This will make it much easier to later support CoreCLR too which doesn't have rich embedding APIs. Additionally the code in C# is more maintainable and makes it easier to implement new features, e.g.: runtime codegen which we could use to avoid using reflection for marshaling everytime a field, property or method is accessed. SOME NOTES ON INTEROP We make the same assumptions as GDNative about the size of the Godot structures we use. We take it a bit further by also assuming the layout of fields in some cases, which is riskier but let's us squeeze out some performance by avoiding unnecessary managed to native calls. Code that deals with native structs is less safe than before as there's no RAII and copy constructors in C#. It's like using the GDNative C API directly. One has to take special care to free values they own. Perhaps we could use roslyn analyzers to check this, but I don't know any that uses attributes to determine what's owned or borrowed. As to why we maily use pointers for native structs instead of ref/out: - AFAIK (and confirmed with a benchmark) ref/out are pinned during P/Invoke calls and that has a cost. - Native struct fields can't be ref/out in the first place. - A `using` local can't be passed as ref/out, only `in`. Calling a method or property on an `in` value makes a silent copy, so we want to avoid `in`. REGARDING THE BUILD SYSTEM There's no longer a `mono_glue=yes/no` SCons options. We no longer need to build with `mono_glue=no`, generate the glue and then build again with `mono_glue=yes`. We build only once and generate the glue (which is in C# now). However, SCons no longer builds the C# projects for us. Instead one must run `build_assemblies.py`, e.g.: ```sh %godot_src_root%/modules/mono/build_scripts/build_assemblies.py \ --godot-output-dir=%godot_src_root%/bin \ --godot-target=release_debug` ``` We could turn this into a custom build target, but I don't know how to do that with SCons (it's possible with Meson). OTHER NOTES Most of the moved code doesn't follow the C# naming convention and still has the word Mono in the names despite no longer dealing with Mono's embedding APIs. This is just temporary while transitioning, to make it easier to understand what was moved where.
2022-06-20Clean up Hash Functionsreduz
Clean up and do fixes to hash functions and newly introduced murmur3 hashes in #61934 * Clean up usage of murmur3 * Fixed usages of binary murmur3 on floats (this is invalid) * Changed DJB2 to use xor (which seems to be better)
2022-05-16Replace most uses of Map by HashMapreduz
* Map is unnecessary and inefficient in almost every case. * Replaced by the new HashMap. * Renamed Map to RBMap and Set to RBSet for cases that still make sense (order matters) but use is discouraged. There were very few cases where replacing by HashMap was undesired because keeping the key order was intended. I tried to keep those (as RBMap) as much as possible, but might have missed some. Review appreciated!
2022-01-03Update copyright statements to 2022Rémi Verschelde
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
2021-01-01Update copyright statements to 2021Rémi Verschelde
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community! 2020 has been a tough year for most of us personally, but a good year for Godot development nonetheless with a huge amount of work done towards Godot 4.0 and great improvements backported to the long-lived 3.2 branch. We've had close to 400 contributors to engine code this year, authoring near 7,000 commit! (And that's only for the `master` branch and for the engine code, there's a lot more when counting docs, demos and other first-party repos.) Here's to a great year 2021 for all Godot users 🎆
2020-07-05Mono/C#: Fix several clang-tidy warnings and cleanupIgnacio Etcheverry
2020-05-09C#/Mono: Check assembly version when loadingIgnacio Etcheverry
Not sure if we should check revision too, but this is good enough for what we want. This will be needed to load the correct Microsoft.Build when we switch to the nuget version.
2020-04-02Replace NULL with nullptrlupoDharkael
2020-03-17Mono/C#: Optimize the way we store GC handles for scriptsIgnacio Etcheverry
Don't store GC handles for C# script instances and instance bindings as 'Ref<MonoGCHandle>'; store the raw data instead. Initially this was not possible as we needed to store a Variant, but this had not been the case for a looong time yet the stored type was never updated.
2020-03-17Fix C# bindings after recent breaking changesIgnacio Etcheverry
Implementation for new Variant types Callable, Signal, StringName. Added support for PackedInt64Array and PackedFloat64Array. Add generation of signal members as events, as well as support for user created signals as events. NOTE: As of now, raising such events will not emit the signal. As such, one must use `EmitSignal` instead of raising the event directly. Removed old ThreadLocal fallback class. It's safe to use thread_local now since it's supported on all minimum versions of compilers we support.