Which option is faster and more viable?

[streetpunk]

I wanted to know which of these approach options are more faster and viable? Periodic trigger or Countdown timer trigger? Thanks in advance!

• Trigger 1
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.03 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- DO ACTIONS --------

• Trigger 2
  • Events
    • Time - Dummy_Timmer expires
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- DO ACTIONS --------
    • Countdown Timer - Start Dummy_Timmer as a One-shot timer that will expire in 0.03 seconds

 

[LordDz]

The first one. Just because it's easier to code and makes more sense.

 

[Dr Super Good]

First one is probably faster due to 1 less call per iteration, not like the speed difference matters much.

 

[IcemanBo]

Such differences do not really matter, especially in GUI. At least not about performance.
There is logical difference though, in case you play around with stop/re-starting the periodical actions.

When ever you start the timer with "0.03" timeout, it will elapse after exactly "0.03" of timeout, meaning that the trigger will run after exactly "0.03" seconds.

But using the first event, in combination with turn trigger on/off, it may have an offset in the first interal, which is between "0" and the used timeout, so in this case "0.03".
The periodic event "0.03" seconds will still "run" in background, even the trigger is turned off, so when you randomly jump in at a time, then you don't control when the next event of "Every 0.03" seconds will run.

But it doesn't really matter practicaly for such minimum timeout like "0.03".

 

[streetpunk]

This enlighted me on the subject. Thanks a lot, everyone! Case closed!