So first off all we had to update the toolchain, i think everything in september is okay, but we got with this current version.
Then we had to update several dependencies, which broke:
- need a specific fix of winit, i think we want to get rid of this with iced, hopefully, because its buggy as hell. update wayland client to 0.27
- use a updated version of glutin which has wayland-client 0.27 and no longer the broke version 0.23
- update conrod to use modern copypasta 0.7
- use `packed_simd_2` instead of `packed_simd` as the owner of the create abandoned the project.
- adjust all the coding to work with the newer glutin and winit version. that also includes fixing a macro in one of the dependencies that did some crazy conversion from 1 event type to another event type.
It was called `convert_event`
- make a `simd` feature which is default and introduce conditional compiling.
AS I HAVE NO IDEA OF SIMD AND THE CODE. AND I DIDN'T INTRODUCE THE ERROR IN THE FIRST PLACE, WE PANIC FOR NON SIMD CASE FOR NOW. BUT IT WORKS FOR TESTS.
- tarpaulin doesnt support no-default-features. so we have to `sed` them away. semms fair.
After generating a chonk, we now find the highest frequency block (in
terms of the number of groups that uniformly consist of that block) and
replace the chunk's default with that one. We also resort the data in
the process to be in the same order as the original array index. This
improves our memory savings from 3x to almost 7x, and brings us within a
factor of 3 or so of what I hope a true average will be.
The defragmentation is not totally optimal and can probably be improved
from a performance perspective, but given how much of a hard bottleneck
RAM is this seems worthwhile. Also, this doesn't suffer from the issues
the previous solution did.
In the process, also try to address a few edge cases related to block
detection, such as adding back previously solid sprites and removing
filters that may be vestiges of earlier logic.
