Time  Nick       Message
16:30 sfan5      merging #14563, #14579, #14556, #14576 in 25m
16:30 ShadowBot  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14563 -- [no sq] Unnamed collection of fixes by sfan5
16:30 ShadowBot  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14579 -- Remove an unnecessary copy of a big data structure. by cosin15
16:30 sfan5      15m*
16:30 ShadowBot  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14556 -- Formalize OS support policy by sfan5
16:30 ShadowBot  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14576 -- Fix MSVC warning C4172 in ModifySafeMap::get by JosiahWI
19:16 sfan5      I wonder if it would be useful if an entity could request to only be stepped every 0.5s instead every server step
19:16 sfan5      could save a lot of calling into lua
19:26 rubenwardy Light sleep mode
19:27 sfan5      0.5s is an example of course, the entity would decide the value
19:28 Mantar     could be useful, especially if you could specify the delay. our spiders in Exile can go into a hibernation mode where they go quiet and motionless and wait for prey to move into range, to conserve energy
19:29 Mantar     would seem sensible to lower their step rate too
19:32 MTDiscord  <landarvargan> A lot of entities I've made in my time modding don't even use on_step
19:33 MTDiscord  <landarvargan> A mode where an entity only steps on_collide would be interesting
21:35 MTDiscord  <luatic> have we determined that the overhead of calling into lua just to have the entity check a timer is a significant performance problem for entities?
21:54 sfan5      no, but I suspect it
22:19 sfan5      instead of that however it'd be much more impactful if some big server owner shared perf data of their prod setup
22:19 sfan5      doesn't rubenwardy run the ctf one?
22:27 MTDiscord  <luatic> @landarvargan runs it now
22:53 MTDiscord  <landarvargan> Yeah. I'm willing to help find perf issues and test fixes for them. Would this perf data be profiler dumps?
22:55 MTDiscord  <luatic> in this case yes. that should also help us identify server performance issues more generally.
23:11 proller    maybe just use c++ instead lua where performance required?
23:15 MTDiscord  <luatic> proller: that is what sfan was suggesting (avoiding the timer in lua), but first we need to determine where performance is required, and for that we need perf data