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Is there a way to do subj? Now to move a node we need to do 2 heavy actions: remove one node and create a new node, and serialize/deserialize their metadata. Also, with this we lose all callbacks made on a node (IMO, I can be wrong).

Those functions look interesting.
I doupt there will be a huge speedup if you add this into the core because the data must be deleted somewhere in the database and added on another place. But on the other side, it wouldn't require to (de)serialize the data everytime.

I support this idea :)

Krock wrote:I doupt there will be a huge speedup if you add this into the core because the data must be deleted somewhere in the database and added on another place.

It does not need to be deleted. Just update its coordinates. I doubt minetest data structure is so horrible to store coordinates and data in the same field which can cause update of all row.

Nodes are stored in MapBlocks. Each MapBlock is a row which contains a "blob" of binary data to store the nodes within it. Therefore, nodes are not stored in their own rows. I'm not sure how meta data is stored, however.

rubenwardy wrote:Nodes are stored in MapBlocks. Each MapBlock is a row which contains a "blob" of binary data to store the nodes within it. Therefore, nodes are not stored in their own rows. I'm not sure how meta data is stored, however.

Oh gosh. Then I think this structure should be first rewritten to normal "1 node - 1 row" structure, and then we could talk about performance of moving nodes or doing anything else to them. If the whole block gets updated every time one node changes in it, this means we have around 4095x slowness (if I remember correct and block is 16*16*16 nodes)?