[Shiina.Mashiro]

Originally Posted by Depresie btw, what about the following function, is it cpu friendly? register_forward(FM_CmdStart, "OnCmdStart")

Nope.

[claudiuhks]

Originally Posted by HamletEagle Use a global task then. Also note that prethink is called around 20 times/second(IIRC) on every player. Do you still think that prethink is better ?

In my case, 500+ times/ second. It depends on how many FpS a player have.

As a note, a friend of mine computed the remaining Jetpack/ Bazooka fuel through Player(Pre|Post)Think(_Pre|_Post) forward.
Because I've got a higher number of FpS, my fuel was computed faster.
So it was a wrong idea.

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by claudiuhks In my case, 500+ times/ second. It depends on how many FpS a player have. As a note, a friend of mine computed the remaining Jetpack/ Bazooka fuel through Player(Pre|Post)Think(_Pre|_Post) forward. Because I've got a higher number of FpS, my fuel was computed faster. So it was a wrong idea.

fps_max 20
jetpack forever

Originally Posted by fysiks Huh? What is "0,(3)"? 300 fps equates to 3.33 ms.

sorry, I keep posting while I'm high
0,(3) = 0,33333333333333333333...
but I for some reason thought one second had 100 ms and not 1000

edited

[Depresie]

any other opinions about this forward?

register_forward(FM_CmdStart, "OnCmdStart")

fps_max 20 jetpack forever

lol

[klippy]

Originally Posted by Depresie any other opinions about this forward? register_forward(FM_CmdStart, "OnCmdStart")

Shiina.Mashiro has already told you that forward is inefficient. It is also called on every frame, for every player, I think. You'll get thousands of calls per second with it anyway, with a full server.

If I need some code to get executed with a delay, and is per-player, I usually go with a task.
If I have some code running constantly, for example every couple of seconds, and should do something globally (show a HUD message to every player, for example), I usually go with a thinking entity.

[Emp`]

Originally Posted by Depresie any other opinions about this forward? register_forward(FM_CmdStart, "OnCmdStart")

edit:
On the topic Prethink vs set_task, [thank you Arkshine for clearing this up]

Originally Posted by Arkshine CmdStart is exactly the same as Prethink. Just called first.

If you do "good" checks and only progress through the code on a necessary basis (ie. ignoring majority of additional code checks for ineligible players), then the usage will not be terrible and you probably won't notice a difference. This can also be said about prethink, so you will see scripters use the forwards in large/demanding plugins.

However, AMXx is able to compare set_tasks' timestamps faster than a Pawn script can run a bit & check and then also do a timestamp check. It would be hard to measure and compare these different methods, but a rule of thumb when comparing Pawn scripting to AMXx natives (obviously there are exceptions): less pawn script = better pawn script.

[Arkshine]

CmdStart is exactly the same as Prethink. Just called first.

[Depresie]

i see thank you very much for the info