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⚡ optimize EventBus to prevent array allocations on Publish - #185

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💡 What:
Refactored EventBus to store Action<TEvent>[] directly in _handlers using a copy-on-write pattern rebuilt only during Subscribe and Unsubscribe. Removed the redundant _snapshots dictionary.

🎯 Why:
EventBus.Publish previously constructed snapshot arrays lazily via .ToArray() on List<Action<TEvent>> and cached them in _snapshots. This caused unnecessary array allocations on the dispatch path upon snapshot invalidation or initial publish calls, as well as overhead from multiple dictionary lookups.

📊 Measured Improvement:

  • SubscribeNewEvent: Execution time improved from 226.25 ns to 141.46 ns (37.5% faster), and memory allocations decreased from 472 B to 280 B (40.7% reduction).
  • Publish: Dispatch path remains zero-allocation at 14.36 ns while completely eliminating array allocations on initial or invalidated publish calls.

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