Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

A basic job

In essence, a job is just a function running on a separate thread:

using Unity.Collections;
using Unity.Jobs;
using UnityEngine;

public struct SimpleJob : IJob
{
    // Put here a bunch of data...
    public float number;

    public NativeArray<float> data;

    // Write your Execute() function.
    public void Execute()
    {
        data[0] += number;
    }
}

Every job is a struct extending the IJobinterface interface. The struct contains any data we want for the job to use and a function named Execute for the operation we want to execute in the job. The previous example, for instance, just adds a certain number to the first element of an array.

Because, as we said before, multithreading is a very tricky business, Unity offers some limitations in terms of the ...