Faster than logic

[gc8 981]

Hi

I have been using the Logic object as group member so that my empty groups wont get deleted (it's a group spawn thing) but I noticed that even Logic object doesn't sound like performance heavy object it too needs to be processed and causes lag. I found that using _enablesimulation false; on the logics reduces lag so I wanted to ask does anyone know if there's faster way of doing this? Or is using logic object my only option?

 

Test code (Laggy):

 

_g = creategroup west;

for "_i" from 0 to 2000 do
{
 private _l = _g createUnit ["Logic", [1000,1000,0], [], 0, "NONE"];
 
 // _l enablesimulation false;
 };
 

 

thx!

[Rydygier 1317]

Check alternative syntax for createGroup. It allows you to decide, if empty group should be deleted or not. 

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

You could also use deleteGroupWhenEmpty.

 

Cheers

[gc8 981]

Is it certain the group will not be deleted if I set it not to? The wiki says "Other engine group auto-deletion mechanisms in place are not affected by this." in deleteGroupWhenEmpty page. So I thought it might still get deleted, hope I'm wrong.

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

1 hour ago, gc8 said:

Is it certain the group will not be deleted if I set it not to? The wiki says "Other engine group auto-deletion mechanisms in place are not affected by this." in deleteGroupWhenEmpty page. So I thought it might still get deleted, hope I'm wrong.

I guess that refers to the garbage collector.

You can always test stuff.

 

Cheers

[gc8 981]

10 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

I guess that refers to the garbage collector.

You can always test stuff.

 

Cheers

 

Yeah was thinking the same :)

I will test soon as I get the time

[gc8 981]

Ok I made a test and it seems to work fine.

 

This is what I tried:

 

for "_i" from 0 to 500 do
{

_g = creategroup west;
_g deleteGroupWhenEmpty false;

};

_startGroups = +allgroups;

while { true } do
{

 hintSilent format["%1 %2 %3", count _startGroups, count allgroups, {!isnull _x} count _startGroups  ]; // prints 288 288 288
 
 
 // Keep creating groups
_g = creategroup west;
systemchat format ["new: %1", _g];
_g deleteGroupWhenEmpty false;


 sleep 1;

};

 

It creates lots of groups (over the max limit) and prints what is expected...

 

Ran the test about 5 minutes.. so it could still be there is garbage collector after x mins