After testing with a savegame on ZDCMP2 which is probably the largest map in existence, timing both methods resulted in a speed difference of less than 40 ms (70 vs 110 ms for reading all sectory, linedefs, sidedefs and objects).
This compares to an overall restoration time, including reloading the level, precaching all textures and setting everything up, of approx. 1.2 s, meaning an increase of 3% of the entire reloading time.
That's simply not worth all the negative side effects that may happen with a method that highly depends on proper code construction.
On the other hand, using random access means that a savegame version change is only needed now when the semantics of a field change, but not if some get added or deleted.
- do not I_Error out in the serializer unless caused by a programming error.
It is better to let the serializer finish, collect all the errors and I_Error out when the game is known to be in a stable enough state to allow unwinding.
- fixed a few errors in the ACS module serializer.
- reordered a few things to how they were in the old code.
- optimized serialization of the level.Scrolls array to happen within the sector. This is to allow skipping 0-entries which normally constitute the vast majority of them.
- Trails now copy pitch, and set the projectile as the target.
- Added GETOWNER flag. Using it sets the owner of the fast projectile as the target instead, if it has an owner.
- Crashes occurred if a particular actor was a tracer to the player and the actor was not gone by the time the player unmorphs.
- Failed unmorphs occur if tracer was manipulated through means like A_RearrangePointers, etc.
This reverts commit 5ff0abe568.
- use STAT_INVENTORY only for held items.
Seems this was causing some strange issues with hubs, but for items placed in the world it still cannot be allowed to have them in a different statnum.
This was causing issues with sprite sorting. For this to work as intended, all actors in the world that display sprites need to remain in spawn order, including inventory items.
The only thing this statnum was used for were some bot related search actions which are simply not worth breaking actual maps for some very minor performance gain.
