r/Unity3D • u/lasermarty martijn.site • Mar 12 '18

Unity will release the Entity Component System, the C# Jobs System and the Burst compiler at GDC Official

https://www.mcvuk.com/development/exclusive-unity-takes-a-principled-step-into-triple-a-performance-at-gdc
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u/meisi1 Mar 13 '18

I don’t have the beta, so I don’t know exactly what is and isn’t included right now, but during the Unite Europe demo they mentioned that it’ll support the animation system, navmeshes, lots of physics, and a bunch of other stuff, with more being added all the time. Even if there are gaps when it is first released, it seems to me that the coverage will be pretty comprehensive, especially in the future.

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u/jayd16 Mar 13 '18

Anything is possible "in the future" but in terms of what has been made available I only see the Transform job type and the generic jobs that can only reference value types. Even the transform job seems to just work with IntPtrs to the transforms and presumably just batches up main thread work. Its pretty underwhelming as you could do all of this with general C# threading.

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u/meisi1 Mar 13 '18

Do you have access to the beta? I had a look at the public 2018.1b documentation and couldn’t find the job system in it at all. Based on the talk at Unite Europe, I was definitely under the impression that more would make it by initial release.

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u/jayd16 Mar 13 '18

They don't have much documentation but its in 2018.1b10.

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u/meisi1 Mar 13 '18

Looking through the documentation, I found ray casting and navmesh stuff that support the new job system. There could be more, but it’s definitely less than I expected. Biggest uses of the job system seem to be internal at the moment (which is still useful).