The main issue of 'type-less' standard C allocations is that there is no check on
allocated type possible.
This is a serious source of annoyance (and crashes) when making some
low-level structs non-trivial, as tracking down all usages of these
structs in higher-level other structs and their allocation is... really
painful.
MEM_[cm]allocN<T> templates on the other hand do check that the
given type is trivial, at build time (static assert), which makes such issue...
trivial to catch.
NOTE: New code should strive to use MEM_new (i.e. allocation and
construction) as much as possible, even for trivial PoD types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135747
This PR creates 2 namespaces for VSE code:
- `blender::seq` for sequencer core code
- `blender::ed::vse` for editor code
These names are chosen to not be in conflict with each other.
No namespace was used for RNA.
Finally, file `BKE_sequencer_offscreen.h` was moved from BKE to sequencer.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135500
This renames the struct `Sequence` to `Strip`.
While the motivation for this partially comes from
the "Sequence Design" #131329, it seems like this
is a good refactor whether the design gets implemented
or not.
The `Sequence` represents what users see as strips in the
VSE. Many places in the code already refere to a `Sequence`
as "strip". It's the C-style "base class" of all strip types.
This also renames the python RNA type `bpy.types.Sequence`
to `bpy.types.Strip` which means that this technically breaks
the python API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132179
Cleanup (and make slightly faster as a side effect) the way VSE effects
do multi-threading. Previously (some of them) were using
IMB_processor_apply_threaded with C-like machinery (which internally
uses a task pool), switch that over to a helper apply_effect_op
(which internally uses a parallel for). Based on profiling, parallel
for is slightly more efficient (task pool takes a bit until all the
tasks are "pushed" into the pool). Note however that some VSE effects
were already doing parallel for internally; these are not affected.
VSE scene at 4K resolution, with four 4K resolution PNG images blended
over each other, time it takes to do render_strip_stack:
- Ryzen 5950X (Win/VS2022): 38.9ms -> 34.7ms
- Mac M4 Max: 21.9ms -> 19.8ms
Now that all VSE effects are internally threaded via parallel for,
there's no need for the init_execution and execute_slice machinery,
so remove all that.
You might also notice that half of "over drop" effect code is gone.
It was accidentally not doing anything whatsoever for the last 18 years
(since 2.42), and currently observed behavior matches documentation
and "internet knowledge", so let's accept it as correct.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132380
Part of #130975: split off overly large VSE effects.cc (almost 4000
lines) into separate source files. No behavior changes.
- Add / Subtract / Multiply all go into one source file,
- Blend Over / Blend Under / Over Drop / other blend modes all go
into one source file,
- Cross and Gamma Cross go into one source file,
- All others go into their own files.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132323
