This is a convenience wrapper for `Map<Key, Vector<Value>>`.
It does not provide any performance benefits (yet). I need this
kind of map in a couple of places and before I was duplicating
the lookup logic in many places.
Object sockets work now, but only the new Object Transforms and the
Particle Mesh Emitter node use it. The emitter does not actually
use the mesh surface yet. Instead, new particles are just emitted around
the origin of the object.
Internally, handles to object data blocks are passed around in the network,
instead of raw object pointers. Using handles has a couple of benefits:
* The caller of the function has control over which handles can be resolved
and therefore limit access to specific data. The set of data blocks that
is accessed by a node tree should be known statically. This is necessary
for a proper integration with the dependency graph.
* When the pointer to an object changes (e.g. after restarting Blender),
all handles are still valid.
* When an object is deleted, the handle is invalidated without causing crashes.
* The handle is just an integer that can be stored per particle and can be cached easily.
The mapping between handles and their corresponding data blocks is
stored in the Simulation data block.
Those are useful when you have to create containers with static
storage duration. If those would use Blender's guarded allocator,
it would report memory leaks, that are not actually leaks.
This updates the usage of integer types in code I wrote according to our new style guides.
Major changes:
* Use signed instead of unsigned integers in many places.
* C++ containers in blenlib use `int64_t` for size and indices now (instead of `uint`).
* Hash values for C++ containers are 64 bit wide now (instead of 32 bit).
I do hope that I broke no builds, but it is quite likely that some compiler reports
slightly different errors. Please let me know when there are any errors. If the fix
is small, feel free to commit it yourself.
I compiled successfully on linux with gcc and on windows.
Instead of depending on static initialization order of globals use
static variables within functions. Those are initialized on first use.
This is every so slighly less efficient, but avoids a full class of problems.
This uses the new implicit conversions and constructors
that have been committed in the previous commit.
I tested these changes on Linux with gcc and on Windows.
This was the last of the three network optimizations I developed in
the functions branch. Common subnetwork elimination and constant
folding together can get rid of most unnecessary nodes.
Those optimizations work on the multi-function network level.
Not only will they make the network evaluation faster, but they also
simplify the network a lot. That makes it easier to understand the
exported dot graph.
