Profiling mod

[iWitch]

As i understand there something like this for chrome version. Or it will work for steam too?

Is it possible to see how much time wasted on calling functions, wasted memory etc?

Somebody have such experience?

 

I made some custom widget for temperature monitoring and was surprised how often OnUpdate was called if StartUpdating() called.

 

i reduced useless callings when percent/value isnt changed much, but health and sanity indicators have same model of updating. Thats scary me

 

So want to know maybe it reality its cheap operation (in vanilla number showing only when mouse over indicator so its not problem), but mine shows value in any time and first time i saw crazy amount of updates

[finpig]

soz guy who asked me for artwork!

[simplex]

As i understand there something like this for chrome version. Or it will work for steam too?

Is it possible to see how much time wasted on calling functions, wasted memory etc?

Somebody have such experience?

I haven't used it, but take a look at profiler.lua. It's well documented in the comments at the beginning of the file. But don't stress too much on premature optimisation, that's many a programmer's downfall .

I made some custom widget for temperature monitoring and was surprised how often OnUpdate was called if StartUpdating() called.

 

i reduced useless callings when percent/value isnt changed much, but health and sanity indicators have same model of updating. Thats scary me

 

So want to know maybe it reality its cheap operation (in vanilla number showing only when mouse over indicator so its not problem), but mine shows value in any time and first time i saw crazy amount of updates

Yes, OnUpdate methods are called very often. Every frame, if I'm not mistaken. That's why components with more expensive update logic use a custom update task via self.inst:DoPeriodicTask() or similar.

[iWitch]

thx for reply, but maybe you know:

game have some kind of optimizations like - if you calling SetTint,SetScale with exatcly same values, game engine will ignore it? Or its cheap operation anyway?

Edited April 18, 2014 by iWitch

[iWitch]

and one more question

if i change some standart component by adding few variables and OnLoad/OnSave to handle it

will it broke game save if mod will be disabled or deleted in future?

or next save (on exit or just new day) will completely destroy them and no problem here?

Edited April 18, 2014 by iWitch

[finpig]

i have no idea?