What is more efficient?
 

Im trying to optimize my plugin but Im not sure whats more efficient:
I need to get values from cvars but I have to do it very often (player spawn and ongameframe).

So whats better:

1. getting cvar values from cvars in OnPluginStart and saving them in global variables so I can just use the global variables and hook the convar changes so when they get changed I modify the global variables.

or

2. no global variables for cvars, but using getconvarint, getconvarfloat, getconvarstring and getconvarbool every time I need to access the cvar variables.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

Well this is what GetConVarInt does: https://github.com/alliedmodders/sou....cpp#L335-L348

From that i would guess it will be slightly better to cache it in global variables, especially if you need it every frame.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

That's what I thought, thanks.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

It's meaningless to "cache" non-string ConVars. As far as I know, SM does this cache for you in the background.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

So what are you suggesting?

Re: What is more efficient?
 

Cache only string ConVars, because getting their value is a pain in the a**. For int, float and bool ConVars, just use GetConVar*** functions.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

I cache all my cvars and hook changes to update the cache.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

AFAIK, Sourcemod caches cvars on its own; other than to save calls to GetConVarString, caching cvars is unnecessary.

My Friendly Mode plugin once cached all its cvars in such a manner. It was hell to maintain, and ultimately unnecessary as I later found out.


Further, the new syntax seems to discourage caching in this manner, with the cool .IntValue .FloatValue and .BoolValue properties.

Re: What is more efficient?
 

Thank you for this info.