First of all, this is a work in progress. Second, it's a helper library for Android projects.
What this library intents to achieve is:
- Provide a foundation for multimedia Android projects, i.e. games
- Nothing more.
To avoid the problems that arise with rapid object creation and the garbage collection (for instance in the context of scene graphs where rapid matrix and vector multiplication is needed) a caching mini-framework is provided.
It consists of a thread local object cache that creates objects on the fly if needed and recycles existing objects where it can.
Create a singleton field:
public static final IObjectCache<Matrix4> Cache = new ThreadLocalObjectCache<Matrix4>(new ObjectFactory<Matrix4>() {
@NotNull @Override
public Matrix4 createNew() {
return new Matrix4();
}
});and maybe some convenience methods:
@NotNull
public static Matrix4 createNew() {
Matrix4 matrix = Cache.getOrCreate(); // this instance may be uninitialized, i.e. dirty
return matrix.toUnit(); // clean it up
}
public static void recycle(@NotNull Matrix4 matrix) {
Cache.registerElement(matrix);
}
public void recycle() {
Cache.registerElement(this);
} Matrix4 officialWay = Matrix4.Cache.getOrCreate();
Matrix4 convenientWay = Matrix4.createNew(); // official way
Matrix4.Cache.recycle(matrix);
// convenient way
matrix.recycle();As soon as the object is recycled, it can be reused.
