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Named Messages: Don't allocate a byte array whenever you send a message
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Descripción
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Named Messages are a great way to send custom messages that are not tied to a specific game object and/or are more dynamic than standard RPC calls. However, the only way to send these messages (via CustomMessagingManager.SendNamedMessage) is by providing a string which gets then hashed using XXHash.Hash32 or XXHash.Hash64 which then calls Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text). This function always allocates a new byte array, containing the string. As far as I can see, there is no other possible way to send a named message.
Describe the solution you'd like
I see two possible solutions:
- Don't use
Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text)and instead use one of the overloads where you can specify an existingbyte[]or Span. This would allow the use of a pre-alloced buffer (e.g. from a temp alloced NativeArray or an array pool). - Add a function overload where I can provide the hash myself (and provide a way to obtain this hash). This would work similar to e.g.
Animator.StringToHashorShader.PropertyToID. However, the HashSize can be 4 bytes or 8 bytes (depending onNetworkManager.NetworkConfig.RpcHashSize) and can even change during the runtime (at least,CustomMessageManagersupports this case). Therefore it might be a bit confusing to the user which hash (with which data type) they have to use in this case - unless theGetHashfunction returns a struct which contains both hashes...which might be a bit weird as well.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- I can use unnamed messages and just re-implement the logic from named messages, using the solution described above.
Additional context
Example GC Alloc from the profiler:
Size: 41
Call Stack:
mscorlib.dll!System.Text::Encoding.GetBytes()
Unity.Netcode.Runtime.dll!Unity.Netcode::XXHash.Hash32() ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.5.2/Runtime/Hashing/XXHash.cs:218
Unity.Netcode.Runtime.dll!Unity.Netcode::CustomMessagingManager.SendNamedMessage() ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.5.2/Runtime/Messaging/CustomMessageManager.cs:296
Unity.Netcode.Runtime.dll!Unity.Netcode::CustomMessagingManager.SendNamedMessageToAll() ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.5.2/Runtime/Messaging/CustomMessageManager.cs:236
I wouldn't say this is a huge problem (though it depends on how many messages are being sent and how long their name is), and unnamed messages are an easy workaround. However, most of this package seems to focus on allocating as little as possible, and I think that fixing this problem here shouldn't be too hard (otherwise just ignore this issue).
Thanks for your work on this amazing package, I really enjoy using it! I can also provide a PR with a fix mentioned above if you would like me to, I just didn't want to submit something unwanted.
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Línea de trabajo
Empieza leyendo Runtime/Hashing/XXHash.cs y Runtime/Messaging/CustomMessageManager.cs, especialmente la ruta de llamada de SendNamedMessage y la asignación indicada en las líneas señaladas. Reproduce con el profiler la asignación de los mensajes con nombre y, a continuación, determina cómo evitarla manteniendo el comportamiento de hash de 32 bits y de 64 bits cuando cambie el tamaño de hash configurado. El trabajo estará terminado cuando los envíos con nombre ya no asignen el array de bytes del nombre y el comportamiento existente siga estando cubierto por las pruebas disponibles.
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- csharp, unity
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- networking, performance
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