Bubel ECS - Entity-Component-System architecture implementation

[James Blachly]

On 3/9/21 4:02 PM, Meta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 March 2021 at 15:21:26 UTC, Mergul wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 March 2021 at 14:29:37 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> Awesome! In the demo, I noticed that if there are >3000 entities 
>>> spawned, there will be periodic dips in the FPS. Could this be 
>>> Javascript's GC kicking in?
>>
>> What browser are you using? I've tested couple of browsers. In general 
>> JavaScript shouldn't be a problem, from what I know WASM only growth 
>> its memory. Library itself almost never call malloc (so memory is 
>> always allocated). On firefox I had problem with FPS most of a time 
>> and I'm not sure what cause this problem (I found several bug reports 
>> which could be related to that). Besides Firefox every web browser I 
>> tested was based on chromium engine. I didn't see any periodic dips, 
>> even with <200k entities.
>> Maybe there is some problem related to WebGL or JS Workers. When JS 
>> side detects that WASM threads are enabled in browser it loads 
>> multithreaded version of WASM code and spawn workers. But overall 
>> multithreaded execution is always more stable for me.
> 
> This is in Chrome 88.0.4324.192 on my 2015 Macbook Pro.

Interesting; Here on a 2012 Macbook pro with Firefox I have consistent 
60 FPS even at 3500 elements with no periodic drops