In the olden days, we passed it a vector of open ESMReader instances, as they knew the filenames and sizes, so were a convenient source of this knowledge.
When the ReadersCache was introduced as a pool of readers to limit the maximum number of simultaneously open file handles (to avoid going over the OS' limit) it was a poor substitute.
* We iterate over all the earlier readers in order in a double loop, which is the worst case scenario for an LRU pool as once we're past the size limit, we're guaranteed maximum thrashing - the least recently used item is the most likely to be used next, so the worst to evict.
* We didn't want to read any ESM files, just know whether they'd been read and what their sizes were, so didn't want to open a file handle, which the ReadersCache forced us to do.
Obviously, opening lots of file handles isn't fast, and as this was an operation done for each content file which iterated over the file's masters and within that loop iterated over every loaded file, that's O(n^3) complexity in the worst case, and for things like delta plugin merged plugins, they hit the worst case in long load orders.
This resolves the freeze reported as https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/-/issues/8425, but there may be other freezes on launch.
I tested this with a USB3 external hard drive.
These two places were the only ones where we're IO-bound and block the main thread, so they're the only ones that need progress bars.
If trying to replicate this test, then it's important to unplug the hard drive between each repeat.
Apparently Windows is excellent at disk caching these days as it takes a minute and a half to start the launcher with Total Overhaul on this drive when it's just been plugged in, but less time than the first launch after a reboot on an NVME drive once the cache has been warmed up.
It's much slower than doing it on demand as it only takes a microsecond, but for a really big load order, there are hundreds of thousands of intermediate calls before everything's set up and we can draw the GUI.
Unchecking files only changes whether they're checked, and doesn't completely rearrange the table and change the number of elements it has, so we only need to change the check state, not the whole layout.
It's way faster to just query all the data once after setting a content list than it is to query the data for all files between the old and new location of a file when we change any file's location in the load order.
SHGetFolderPathW was deprecated in Windows Vista nearly two decades ago. ShGetKnownFolderPath is the replacement.
Also log if there was an error. Someone seemed to be getting an error on Discord, despite other apps being able to get the path just fine with these functions.
Also don't pass the flags to create the folders if they don't exist. We probably don't have the right permissions and if they don't exist, then there are bigger problems. Maybe this will fix the issue the user was having.
Also add a comment about global config on Windows being fundamentally wrong.
* Do not fail tile generation if debug mesh writing fails.
* Mark some functions as noexcept to better crash than have a deadlock.
* Unlock tile and remove job if there on exception while processing it.
/usr/bin/../include/c++/v1/string_view:300:42: error: implicit instantiation of undefined template 'std::char_traits<signed char>'
300 | static_assert(is_same<_CharT, typename traits_type::char_type>::value,
| ^
/home/elsid/dev/openmw/components/to_utf8/to_utf8.cpp:55:41: note: in instantiation of template class 'std::basic_string_view<signed char>' requested here
55 | std::basic_string_view<signed char> getTranslationArray(FromType sourceEncoding)
| ^
/usr/bin/../include/c++/v1/__fwd/string.h:23:29: note: template is declared here
23 | struct _LIBCPP_TEMPLATE_VIS char_traits;
| ^
std::char_traits support for non char types was removed from libc++19:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D157058.
components\lua\configuration.cpp(133): warning C4267: 'argument': conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
components\esm3\effectlist.cpp(35): warning C4267: '=': conversion from 'size_t' to 'uint32_t', possible loss of data
components_tests\misc\testmathutil.cpp(54): warning C4305: 'argument': truncation from 'const double' to 'osg::Vec3f::value_type'
components_tests\misc\testmathutil.cpp(62): warning C4305: 'argument': truncation from 'const double' to 'osg::Vec3f::value_type'
components_tests\misc\testmathutil.cpp(131): warning C4305: 'argument': truncation from 'const double' to 'osg::Vec3f::value_type'
components_tests\misc\testmathutil.cpp(135): warning C4305: 'argument': truncation from 'const double' to 'osg::Vec3f::value_type'
components_tests\misc\testmathutil.cpp(135): warning C4305: 'argument': truncation from 'const double' to 'osg::Vec3f::value_type'
components_tests\misc\testmathutil.cpp(139): warning C4305: 'argument': truncation from 'const double' to 'osg::Vec3f::value_type'
Previously, comments would be associated with the openmw.cfg line that followed them, but only up to the first comma.
This meant that if you had fallback=thing,otherthing and fallback=thing,thirdthing, comments above the thirdthing line would be moved above the otherthing line, even though both lines would be kept when the file was written out.
This seemed to be an attempt at a feature when cc9cii first implemented the comment preservation system, but it only seems to cause confusion.
