(emewy) does bigger flag depth = more CPU server load when using them? | Denizen and Citizens | Page 1

frank epoch Jan 27, 2025, 5:54 PM

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I feel this might be a nitty gritty technical question. Does reading and writing flags (especially reading) with bigger flag depth, for example "aquarium.contents.inhabitants.ids.5.stats.hunger" take more processing power to calculate than something shorter like "aquarium.ids.5.stats.hunger", in the process sacrificing explicit conceptual relation for something more implicit and possibly lighter for the server to access? Bigger RAM usage is not a problem here, just concerned about the CPU side of things more.

Not familiar with the inner workings of Denizen on a Java level so I thought it would be appropriate to ask here 🥴

Bonus question, if access speed + workload for dealing with flags is affected, does the same apply for definitions within scripts as well with lots of defmap depth?

ornate oakBOT Jan 27, 2025, 5:54 PM

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(emewy) does bigger flag depth = more CPU server load when using them?

ornate oakBOT Jan 27, 2025, 5:54 PM

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frank epoch I feel this might be a nitty gritty technical question. Does reading and writing...

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frank epoch Jan 30, 2025, 12:19 PM

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bump

mortal yoke Feb 14, 2025, 2:56 PM

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I'm interested in the answer to that question too

rapid ravine Feb 14, 2025, 3:18 PM

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difference should be minimal (if any)

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you can try it yourself

dusk iron Feb 17, 2025, 3:15 PM

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we're talking nanoseconds of difference

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mcmonkey has expanded on this topic in another forum post, but im not finding it

upper silo Feb 17, 2025, 5:05 PM

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rapid ravine you can try it yourself

this ^

best to not preoptimize this early on. if this is just in pure curiosity im sure you can find a proper explanation from monkey (as bill gates said above) somewhere on the discord.

mortal pierBOT Mar 5, 2025, 11:22 AM

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#(emewy) does bigger flag depth = more CPU server load when using them?