Force-load areas with mesecon usage

This is a major speedup for large mesecon machines / structures.
Force-loaded areas are stored in a file to be persistent over server
reboots. By default, areas are unloaded after 10 minutes (600s) without
usage, this can be customized with the mesecon.forceload_timeout
setting. Please turn max_forceloaded_blocks up for better performance.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/mesecons/actionqueue.lua b/mesecons/actionqueue.lua
index a773008..e300ea7 100644
--- a/mesecons/actionqueue.lua
+++ b/mesecons/actionqueue.lua
@@ -94,25 +94,8 @@ end
 -- Store and read the ActionQueue to / from a file
 -- so that upcoming actions are remembered when the game
 -- is restarted
-
-local wpath = minetest.get_worldpath()
-local function file2table(filename)
-	local f = io.open(filename, "r")
-	if f==nil then return {} end
-	local t = f:read("*all")
-	f:close()
-	if t=="" or t==nil then return {} end
-	return minetest.deserialize(t)
-end
-
-local function table2file(filename, table)
-	local f = io.open(filename, "w")
-	f:write(minetest.serialize(table))
-	f:close()
-end
-
-mesecon.queue.actions = file2table(wpath.."/mesecon_actionqueue")
+mesecon.queue.actions = mesecon.file2table("mesecon_actionqueue")
 
 minetest.register_on_shutdown(function()
-	mesecon.queue.actions = table2file(wpath.."/mesecon_actionqueue", mesecon.queue.actions)
+	mesecon.table2file("mesecon_actionqueue", mesecon.queue.actions)
 end)