Entry 257

Every table group moves into the build

2026-09-27build

Filescrates/piney-gen/src/data.rscrates/piney-gen/src/render.rscrates/piney-data/src/tablescrates/piney-desktop/srccrates/piney-demo/src/dialog.rscrates/piney-toppage/src/assets.rsplans/build-data.md

After the first five (worklog 256), the other sixteen of the generator's 21 groups moved too: battle, combat, desktop, dtmenu, effect, fieldui, fonts, kanji, loaddisp, nameentry, party_chat, stream, title, toppage, voice and world. Their values are no longer in the repository:

• piney-data/src/tables was 12 MB of Rust and is now 388 KB of types, loaders and accessors;
• the values are 6.3 MB for the four volumes in work/data;
• each build disc's PINEY/ is 2.1-2.2 MiB, and after dedup and zstd the whole build grew by 1.8 MiB.

The shared statics

These groups have 337 entries alike on every volume, which were pub statics. They are now LazyLock statics of the same type, read on first use from whichever volume's values can be had. Most uses compiled as they were: indexing, fields, method calls and &X all go through the deref. The ones that took the value itself did not:

• 67 uses passed a static where its type was wanted, and got a *. The compiler's JSON spans drove the edits (a scratch script over cargo build --message-format=json), in piney-desktop, piney-demo, piney-toppage, piney-audio and piney-game.
• 5 moved a static out ([t::VIBRATION_INFO, ...], ne::HIRA_BLOCK), and one built an array of them to concat (the fonts' rows past the end). Those took a * by hand, and a test's iterator took &*FOOD.

Every call cheap

store::group takes a lock and a map lookup. The tables are read every frame, so each generated module now keeps its own reference per volume in a OnceLock (of), and one for the shared values (shared). After the first call, of(volume) is a load.

pack::DATA_VERSION is 3. The default build was rebuilt. From it:

• the launcher plays and starts a part's title;
• Mutation's desktop set-up runs its scripts and windows, with the fonts, the texts and the dialogue tables all read from PINEY/.

piney-gen gen --check is current, clippy is clean, and the whole workspace's tests pass (694), reading the tables from work/data.