Setting the flag updates the spawner's delay which stops the spawner from trying to find a new spawn position each tick efter the event was cancelled/aborted which makes it usable for mob stackers/mergers and other plugins that don't actually want any mob to spawn in the spawner cycle but keep the overall behaviour close to vanilla.
This might slightly effect existing plugins that use this event but I doubt anyone really relied on this behaviour, the only possible use case that I can think of is cancelling the event until you find a suitable position in your plugin... and this should be handled by the plugin itself by cancelling and spawning at the position manually.
CraftBukkit added synchronization to read and write methods. This adds
much more contention on this object for accessing region files, as
the entire read and write of NBT data is now a blocking operation.
This causes issues when something then simply needs to check if a chunk exists
on the main thread, causing a block...
However, this synchronization was unnecessary, because there is already
enough synchronization done to keep things safe
1) Obtaining a Region File: Those methods are still static synchronized.
Meaning we can safely obtain a Region File concurrently.
2) RegionFile data access: Methods reading and manipulating data from
a region file are also marked synchronized, ensuring that no 2 processes
are reading or writing data at the same time.
3) Checking a region file for chunkExists: getOffset is also synchronized
ensuring that even if a chunk is currently being written, it will be safe.
By removing these synchronizations, we reduce the locking to only
when data is being write or read.
GZIP compression and NBT Buffer creation will no longer be part of the
synchronized context, reducing lock times.
Ultimately: This brings us back to Vanilla, which has had no indication of region file loss.
Closes#1260
* master:
Add some debug for entity slices
Mark chunk dirty on entity changes
Reduce and improve dupe uuid resolve message
Add more entity debug info
Bring some 1.13 authors to master
Fixed more stuff
Remove unsed method
Extend player profile API to support skin changes
Extend player profile API to support skin changes
Cleaned up some implementation notes to use existing Vanilla method for some things.
merged into parent patch
7dd5837d Fixed more stuff (NickAcPT)
09f01353 Remove unsed method (NickAcPT)
e5ea4656 Extend player profile API to support skin changes (NickAcPT)
e67d55d0 Extend player profile API to support skin changes (NickAcPT)
* pull/1250/head:
Fixed more stuff
Remove unsed method
Extend player profile API to support skin changes
Extend player profile API to support skin changes
0069113b Put the decompile fixes into MC Dev Fixes patch (Andrew Steinborn)
608b5e52 Optimize RegistryID.c() (Andrew Steinborn)
* pull/1257/head:
Put the decompile fixes into MC Dev Fixes patch
Optimize RegistryID.c()
It's possible we won't hit this on the servers current state since nothing is async,
but we are working towards that.
I experienced a crash due to this code during my work.
Our changes for the spawn radius have the potential to throw an ArithmeticException
should the server be stopped before we've loaded worlds, we check if the server is
running earlier to check if we should even consider attempting to load chunks, which
would cause us to, 1) not load chunks anyways, as we're disabled; 2) throw an
ArithmeticException due to us expecting that we're going to be loading more than 0 chunks.
These chunks are unfinished, and waste cpu time saving these unfinished chunks.
the loadChunk method refuses to acknoledge they exists, and will restart
a new chunk generation process to begin with, so saving them serves no benefit.
