Bizhawk never would hit this because it only ever runs waterboxes in one host thread, but an application that spun up many threads and ran waterboxes in each would leak 32 bytes of heap for each native thread destroyed, which is super duper not really meaningful at all
Waterbox guest code now runs on a stack inside the guest memory space. This removes some potential opportunities for nondeterminism and makes future porting of libco-enabled cores easier.
This replaces the old managed one. The only direct effect of this is to fix some hard to reproduce crashes in bsnes.
In the long run, we'll use this new code to help build more waterbox features.
Cores that used the .invisible section to store data were saving it; this was a regression from before, so PCFX states should be back down to the previous release size, or perhaps a bit smaller.
Add the ability to dirty track libco cothreads, as used in the bsnes core. This saves a lot of space in those states and they're now quite competitive in size.
some bsnes cothreads call callbacks that hit managed threads. We shouldn't do that, but we do, and sometimes those threads run MSVC's __stkchk which can, depending on circumstances, blow up if the thread extents aren't set.
This also means that we cannot save space on a lot of cothread stacks because __stkchck will blow up any detection guards we try
The waterbox system now uses host os facilities to track whether memory has been written to, to automatically choose what thing to savestate. This results in a large size decrease for some cores, like snes9x or gpgx (when running cartridge games). Doesn't do much for cores that were already memory efficient, or for bsnes because of libco compatibility issues; but those cores don't regress either.
and who said waterbox can't thread. well, it sort of can't. but it sort of can.
the speedup isn't that great, but speed is now pretty close (5%?) to snes9x in the only game that matters (final fantasy 5)
For the external cores, I simply listed whatever the release build we have right now built them with. There are other makefiles and such hanging around...
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