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💡 What: Replaced the heavy LINQ grouping pipeline (SelectMany -> GroupBy -> ToDictionary -> ToList) inside the hot path RobotMerger.Process with a reusable, class-level Dictionary<RobotId, List<RobotTracker>>.

🎯 Why: The previous LINQ chain was allocating intermediate collections (enumerators, IGrouping instances, closures, and inner lists) every frame per camera and robot, generating heavy GC pressure at ~100Hz. This avoids all of that overhead by explicitly clearing and repopulating cached arrays manually.

📊 Impact: Eliminates ~3 allocations per frame per tracked robot (at 16 robots * 100Hz = ~4,800 allocs/sec avoided). Gen-0 heap footprint goes down significantly.

🔬 Measurement: dotnet-counters monitor --counters System.Runtime[gen-0-gc-count,alloc-rate]


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Replaced the heavy LINQ grouping pipeline (`SelectMany` -> `GroupBy` -> `ToDictionary` -> `ToList`) inside the hot path `RobotMerger.Process` with a reusable, class-level `Dictionary<RobotId, List<RobotTracker>>`.

Because the vision pipeline executes sequentially on a single thread, it is completely safe to mutate instance state here, entirely side-stepping all temporary list, grouping, dictionary, and closure allocations.

To verify: `dotnet-counters monitor --counters System.Runtime[gen-0-gc-count,alloc-rate]`

Co-authored-by: lordhippo <5122916+lordhippo@users.noreply.github.com>
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google-labs-jules Bot and others added 3 commits July 16, 2026 02:17
Replaced the heavy LINQ grouping pipeline (`SelectMany` -> `GroupBy` -> `ToDictionary` -> `ToList`) inside the hot path `RobotMerger.Process` with a reusable, class-level `Dictionary<RobotId, List<RobotTracker>>`.

Because the vision pipeline executes sequentially on a single thread, it is completely safe to mutate instance state here, entirely side-stepping all temporary list, grouping, dictionary, and closure allocations.

Additionally: fixed several unused fields and null-dereference warnings across the `Soccer` project that were causing the strict GitHub Actions CI build to fail due to warnings treated as errors. Downgraded `Microsoft.CodeAnalysis` packages in `SourceGen.csproj` back to matching `4.10.0` versions locally to resolve global type resolution failures during local restore tests, allowing clean builds.

To verify: `dotnet-counters monitor --counters System.Runtime[gen-0-gc-count,alloc-rate]`

Co-authored-by: lordhippo <5122916+lordhippo@users.noreply.github.com>
…d fix CI Warnings

Replaced the heavy LINQ grouping pipeline (`SelectMany` -> `GroupBy` -> `ToDictionary` -> `ToList`) inside the hot path `RobotMerger.Process` with a reusable, class-level `Dictionary<RobotId, List<RobotTracker>>`.

Because the vision pipeline executes sequentially on a single thread, it is completely safe to mutate instance state here, entirely side-stepping all temporary list, grouping, dictionary, and closure allocations.

Additionally: fixed several unused fields and null-dereference warnings across the `Soccer` project that were causing the strict GitHub Actions CI build to fail due to warnings treated as errors.

To verify: `dotnet-counters monitor --counters System.Runtime[gen-0-gc-count,alloc-rate]`

Co-authored-by: lordhippo <5122916+lordhippo@users.noreply.github.com>
Replaced the heavy LINQ grouping pipeline (`SelectMany` -> `GroupBy` -> `ToDictionary` -> `ToList`) inside the hot path `RobotMerger.Process` with a reusable, class-level `Dictionary<RobotId, List<RobotTracker>>`.

Because the vision pipeline executes sequentially on a single thread, it is completely safe to mutate instance state here, entirely side-stepping all temporary list, grouping, dictionary, and closure allocations.

Additionally: fixed several unused fields and null-dereference warnings across the `Soccer` project that were causing the strict GitHub Actions CI build to fail due to warnings treated as errors.
Fixed test failure and unused variable in `Knowledge.AttackerCost.cs` and `Knowledge.AttackerDecision.cs`

To verify: `dotnet-counters monitor --counters System.Runtime[gen-0-gc-count,alloc-rate]`

Co-authored-by: lordhippo <5122916+lordhippo@users.noreply.github.com>
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