Depsgraph: Introduce flat list of ID nodes

The idea is to allow iterating over ID nodes in exact order of their
construction, and in order which will not change dependent on memory
pointers or anything.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/depsgraph/intern/depsgraph.h b/source/blender/depsgraph/intern/depsgraph.h
index 889eb33c1bf..1b4dca569d7 100644
--- a/source/blender/depsgraph/intern/depsgraph.h
+++ b/source/blender/depsgraph/intern/depsgraph.h
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ struct DepsRelation {
 
 /* Dependency Graph object */
 struct Depsgraph {
+	// TODO(sergey): Go away from C++ container and use some native BLI.
 	typedef vector<OperationDepsNode *> OperationNodes;
+	typedef vector<IDDepsNode *> IDDepsNodes;
 
 	Depsgraph();
 	~Depsgraph();
@@ -139,10 +141,17 @@ struct Depsgraph {
 
 	/* Core Graph Functionality ........... */
 
-	/* <ID : IDDepsNode> mapping from ID blocks to nodes representing these blocks
-	 * (for quick lookups). */
+	/* <ID : IDDepsNode> mapping from ID blocks to nodes representing these
+	 * blocks, used for quick lookups.
+	 */
 	GHash *id_hash;
 
+	/* Ordered list of ID nodes, order matches ID allocation order.
+	 * Used for faster iteration, especially for areas which are critical to
+	 * keep exact order of iteration.
+	 */
+	IDDepsNodes id_nodes;
+
 	/* Top-level time source node. */
 	TimeSourceDepsNode *time_source;