[Bugsy]

Yeah, I always use thinking entities personally, but like I said I think the heavy lift with set_task() is the initial creation. Going forward from a looping perspective, performance differences between a task and thinking entity is probably debatable.

[klippy]

Creating tasks is actually as expensive as creating any other handle(Arrays, Tries, Menus...), so I wouldn't worry about it.
AMXX checks every 100ms if any of the tasks should get executed, so it's not bad either. What is bad though is that this means that tasks are accurate to ~100ms window and you shouldn't rely on them if you need precision, but for most use cases that's not an issue.
The engine actually checks every frame if any existing entity should think, so it's not far off from what AMXX does.

We are not in early 2000's, servers are powerful, don't underestimate them. If you don't need precision just go with a task, it's alright. Even 0.1s tasks are totally cool.

Also there's been some talk to improve tasks: https://github.com/alliedmodders/amxmodx/pull/380 but it looks like the author isn't interested in completing it.

[HamletEagle]

Even 0.1s tasks are totally cool.

I would be careful with such statements, because some people out of laziness may use 0.1 for everything. Like they use prethink because they are lazy to figure the proper forward for a certain job.
Yeah, if you REALLY need 0.1 seconds then it's okay, but in most cases 0.1 is too often. There are big chances you will be totally fine with a bigger repeat time.

[Relaxing]

Originally Posted by HamletEagle I would be careful with such statements, because some people out of laziness may use 0.1 for everything. Like they use prethink because they are lazy to figure the proper forward for a certain job. Yeah, if you REALLY need 0.1 seconds then it's okay, but in most cases 0.1 is too often. There are big chances you will be totally fine with a bigger repeat time.

Is any possibility that task crashes when the task repeats 10 times a sec? Can tasks even crash?

[E1_531G]

Originally Posted by Relaxing Is any possibility that task crashes when the task repeats 10 times a sec? Can tasks even crash?

The tasks cannot crash. The code inside the task can crash or generate the errors.

[HamletEagle]

Originally Posted by Relaxing Is any possibility that task crashes when the task repeats 10 times a sec? Can tasks even crash?

Why would you execute something 10 times per second that can be executed just fine only one time per second?
You are just wasting resources for no purpose.

About crashes, it depends on the code, as E1_531G said.

[Bugsy]

Agree, I would start high at 1.0 seconds and if the delay is noticeable in game, gradually reduce by 0.1 until it looks acceptable. I would not default to always using 0.1.

[Relaxing]

Originally Posted by HamletEagle Why would you execute something 10 times per second that can be executed just fine only one time per second? You are just wasting resources for no purpose. About crashes, it depends on the code, as E1_531G said.

I was just trying to find out that if the task repeats more quicker, does the chances of the task being corrupted increases or not.

[HamletEagle]

Originally Posted by Relaxing I was just trying to find out that if the task repeats more quicker, does the chances of the task being corrupted increases or not.

If there's a big array which is not static, maybe.