what is a heartbeat debounce

[ashen matrix]

i've seen that term passed around in devforum and among my other friends but i cant actually find anything about it.

[median bloom]

That is not an official term

"Debounce" alone is, though

A debounce is a mechanism that regulates how often a function can be performed

It's essentially a cooldown

[ashen matrix]

damn

[hybrid barn]

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[ashen matrix]

my friend gave me something

local rate = 1
local last = 0

local fire
fire = runservice.Heartbeat:Connect(function(dt)
  last += dt
  if last >= rate then
    last -= rate
  end
end)

this is what he means by that

[ashen matrix]

is there a better way to do debounces than this?

[median bloom]

For this scenario, that is the most optimal debounce implementation

[ashen matrix]

thank you

[median bloom]

Though, it would be better to set last to 0 than to subtract itself from itself

[ashen matrix]

i told him that, he argued it was so no seconds could be wasted

wait

i mistyped it

sorry that was supposed to be last -= rate