[Tauphi]

Hello,

which one of the following "pseudo" codes is better/faster?

first: having local variables in OnGameFrame, but fast variable accesses ...

PHP Code:

public OnGameFrame() {
    new Float:PlayerVel[3];

    for( new client = 1 ; client <= MAXPLAYERS ; client++ ) {
        GetEntPropVector(client, Prop_Data, "m_vecOrigin", PlayerVel);
        for ( new i = 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i++ ) PlayerVel[0] += 10;
    }
} 


second: global variables instead of local ones, but a lot of array indexes ...

PHP Code:

new Float:PlayerVel[MAXPLAYERS][3];

public OnGameFrame() {
    for( new client = 1 ; client <= MAXPLAYERS ; client++ ) {
        GetEntPropVector(client, Prop_Data, "m_vecOrigin", PlayerVel[client]);
        for ( new i = 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i++ ) PlayerVel[client][0] += 10;
    }
} 


thx for help

[SAMURAI16]

depends by your plugin. Use first method anyway

[Kigen]

new Float:PlayerVel[3];

public OnGameFrame() {
    for( new client = 1 ; client <= MAXPLAYERS ; client++ ) {
        GetEntPropVector(client, Prop_Data, "m_vecOrigin", PlayerVel);
        for ( new i = 0 ; i < 1000000 ; i++ ) PlayerVel[0] += 10;
    }
}

Though your for 1000000 loop is going to kill any server that runs that code. But declaring it globally and then using it like it was declared locally is fine as long as no other function depends on it to be global. (SM code runs in a single threaded environment for the most part.

[Tauphi]

i dont want to use the code ... i just wanted to know which algo is faster/better ;D

[Kigen]

Well, the code posted in my last post is faster than both the ones you had in your original post.

Though if you handle it right you can use "decl" instead of "new" and that will also be faster. Though if you define something globally just use "new." "decl" should be used in commonly or heavily used functions.

As documented, "new" allocates the memory and 0's it out so its safe to be used immediately by a function. "decl" does allocates the memory but does not 0's it out so it is NOT safe to be used before a value is assigned to it.