Remove per-call overhead from API access and text conversion

Two hot-path optimizations for the device's Cortex-M7 (and debug simulator
builds):

- The ten sub-API pointers are cached once in Playdate.initialize(with:);
  wrapper accessors now return UnsafePointer and call sites read a single
  field through it, instead of unwrapping the optional API struct and
  copying a whole sub-API struct of function pointers on every call.
  Nested sub-APIs (sound classes, effects, video, tilemap, http/tcp)
  derive from the cached pointers with one field load.

- String -> C conversions (withPlaydateCString, and a new withPlaydateUTF8
  used by the text drawing/measuring APIs) use withUnsafeTemporaryAllocation
  instead of building a ContiguousArray, so logging and drawText in the
  update loop no longer heap-allocate per call. Verified within the
  Embedded Swift subset by the device cross-compile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-07-25 07:23:19 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent e4e99cc894
commit d914e0f8fb
20 changed files with 682 additions and 643 deletions
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
internal import CPlaydate
private var scoreboardsAPI: playdate_scoreboards { Playdate.api.scoreboards.pointee }
private var scoreboardsAPI: UnsafePointer<playdate_scoreboards> { Playdate.scoreboardsAPI }
/// The scoreboards API for games with online leaderboards.
public enum Scoreboards {}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
completion: @escaping (Result<Score, PlaydateError>) -> Void) -> Bool {
addScoreCompletion = completion
return boardID.withPlaydateCString { cBoardID in
scoreboardsAPI.addScore.unsafelyUnwrapped(cBoardID, value, { score, errorMessage in
scoreboardsAPI.pointee.addScore.unsafelyUnwrapped(cBoardID, value, { score, errorMessage in
let completion = Scoreboards.addScoreCompletion
Scoreboards.addScoreCompletion = nil
completion?(Scoreboards.result(score, errorMessage))
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
completion: @escaping (Result<Score, PlaydateError>) -> Void) -> Bool {
personalBestCompletion = completion
return boardID.withPlaydateCString { cBoardID in
scoreboardsAPI.getPersonalBest.unsafelyUnwrapped(cBoardID, { score, errorMessage in
scoreboardsAPI.pointee.getPersonalBest.unsafelyUnwrapped(cBoardID, { score, errorMessage in
let completion = Scoreboards.personalBestCompletion
Scoreboards.personalBestCompletion = nil
completion?(Scoreboards.result(score, errorMessage))
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
@discardableResult
public static func getScoreboards(completion: @escaping (Result<BoardsList, PlaydateError>) -> Void) -> Bool {
boardsCompletion = completion
return scoreboardsAPI.getScoreboards.unsafelyUnwrapped({ boards, errorMessage in
return scoreboardsAPI.pointee.getScoreboards.unsafelyUnwrapped({ boards, errorMessage in
let completion = Scoreboards.boardsCompletion
Scoreboards.boardsCompletion = nil
guard let boards else {
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
return
}
let list = BoardsList(boards.pointee)
scoreboardsAPI.freeBoardsList.unsafelyUnwrapped(boards)
scoreboardsAPI.pointee.freeBoardsList.unsafelyUnwrapped(boards)
completion?(.success(list))
}) != 0
}
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
completion: @escaping (Result<ScoresList, PlaydateError>) -> Void) -> Bool {
scoresCompletion = completion
return boardID.withPlaydateCString { cBoardID in
scoreboardsAPI.getScores.unsafelyUnwrapped(cBoardID, { scores, errorMessage in
scoreboardsAPI.pointee.getScores.unsafelyUnwrapped(cBoardID, { scores, errorMessage in
let completion = Scoreboards.scoresCompletion
Scoreboards.scoresCompletion = nil
guard let scores else {
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
return
}
let list = ScoresList(scores.pointee)
scoreboardsAPI.freeScoresList.unsafelyUnwrapped(scores)
scoreboardsAPI.pointee.freeScoresList.unsafelyUnwrapped(scores)
completion?(.success(list))
}) != 0
}
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ extension Scoreboards {
return .failure(PlaydateError(cString: errorMessage))
}
let value = Score(score.pointee)
scoreboardsAPI.freeScore.unsafelyUnwrapped(score)
scoreboardsAPI.pointee.freeScore.unsafelyUnwrapped(score)
return .success(value)
}
}