Help optimising an event

[alspal]

I'm wondering if this event (2nd one I think) is as efficient as possible (CPU wise), or if it is even an issue to begin with. I'll be performing this almost every tick:

-Random condition
> String tokenizer: Split string
> Start Loop X [tokenizer number of elements] times (about 16 times)


- On Loop X
- Active1 variable = TokenizerElement(loopindex) (100 Active1's)
- Active2 variable = Active1 variable (100 Active2's)
- Active3 variable = Active1 variable (100 Active3's)
> Do positioning


I feel like all the loops and value checking is unnecessary, but I don't understand loops and the object scope list thing well enough to optimize this. I also haven't used the ForEach object before, and I don't know if that will help or not in this situation.

[DavidN]

16 times shouldn't be a problem, as TokenizerElement() shouldn't be a very time-expensive operation. Is this going to be an EXE project, or Flash, or something else?

[Jacob]

Put all of the loops in a deactivated group. Then, to start it, you'd use

Condition{
Open group
Run Fastloop
Close Group
}

Which would make sure MMF never has to read over your loop events except when that loop is running.

[alspal]

Yeah I know about FastGroups thanks. I'm going to be using anaconda. I just thought that all the variable checks combined with the loop would be slow.

[alspal]

Forgot to mention in the first post, there will be about 100 of each Active1, Active2, Active3. So wouldn't all those hundreds of variable checks add up, especially combined with a loop?

[James]

"Premature optimisation is the root of all evil"

You'll have to try it and see before you worry about the speed. :-)