[JASS] Vexorians Table System good for struct storage?

[xD.Schurke]

Hi, I'm working on a new System and acutally I'm using Vexorians Table System to store structs for units.
Is the System good for that?

 

[Eleandor]

me no understand them question...

 

[Marcelo Hossomi]

I use tables to store structs, and it does work well. I don't have much technical knowledge but the map performs nicely

 

[xD.Schurke]

@Eleandor: I just wanted to know if it performecs well

 

[aznricepuff]

Table does use gamecache, so it is slower than using arrays. But this doesn't really matter unless you're going to be doing hundreds of table operations every second.

 

[Viikuna]

It is good for that, but it is usually better to build somekind of UnitUserData based indexing system for your map.

 

[xD.Schurke]

I'm not building a map I create a system and for that I want to use standard libraries

 

[Marcelo Hossomi]

To avoid creating a new thread: in my map I have several structs, basically one for each item-type. As I have about 50 item-types, I decided to use a table and use the item raw code as label, so I don't have to use a loop to go through an array.

Is that more efficient than using the array?

 

[PurplePoot]

In most cases, although the speed difference is negligible either way.

 

[GhostWolf]

If you really think that Game Caches are "slow", you can make your own hash table. It's really, really easy.

 

[TriggerHappy]

Just use table

I don't get why all these people are crazy over minor speed.

GC isn't really that slow anyways.

 

[xD.Schurke]

yep wasn't the speed increased in one of the last patches ?

 

[Deaod]

no. there somehow still are those rumors, however, when i tested GC against accessing a global array (recently, using RtC), GC was about 5 to 10 times slower.

I personally use Table for just that: avoiding an O(n) search.