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szensk

I like the names generated by this method.

One oddity in the source. init.lua shouldn't make namem be a global variable, it should be local and returned via init.lua. This prevents polluting the global scope with variables. (And locals are faster than globals)

szensk

Have you checked if it's the garbage collector?

Try turning off the garbage collector and see if the frame rates stabilize. How? Put

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collectgarbage("stop")

in your love.init. Of course you can't "ship" the game like this but it may help to diagnose the problem.

szensk

That's a double for loop then, eh?

Some pseudocode:

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for i, redLobster in ipairs(crusaderRed.lobsters) do 
     for i, blueLobster in ipairs(crusaderBlue.lobsters) do
        if CheckCollision(...) then --arguments omitted for brevity
             --do stuff here
        end
     end
end

szensk

tl;dr: This is far more difficult than it's worth. A few previous related threads: https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Source_Obfuscation https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=79352 https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=76674 One approach is to distribute the code in compiled bytecod...

szensk

Server is oftc.net

szensk

Here's an example, basically right from the Lua manual: local function printlocals() local n = 1 while true do local name, value = debug.getlocal(2,n) if not name then break end print(name, value) n = n + 1 end end do g = 1 local l = 2 printlocals() end If you wanted to something other than print th...

szensk

Thanks for the reply(s) Robin and szensk. So szensk: What exactly does that mean? Isn't LuaJIT a part of the love package? Your use of the word "can" implies these things are NOT turned on by default. Why not? And how would these optimizations actually be manipulated? By default, LuaJIT (...

szensk

Another thing to note: many of the optimizations you mention can be done automatically by LuaJIT. It tries to do loop unrolling (#3), constant folding (#2) and code hoisting (#1 but only in loops IIRC). I do #1 frequently myself because love.graphics is a mouthful but also LuaJIT doesn't always kill...

szensk

according to a benchmark of various programming languages I found a while ago Javascript is the fastest language for most calculations and operations. Faster than C or C++? In micro-benchmarks, V8 is about 4x slower than C++ and execution time is much more variable. Micro-benchmarks are the areas t...

szensk

Probably Lua 5.1 since that's what everyone uses.

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