#Important resources!

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frank raven
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The Benchmarking tool for GameMaker!

By @opal harness: https://github.com/DragoniteSpam/GMBenchmark

As each GameMaker update brings new features and optimizations, it's always nice to see which functions are faster than others. This forum serves as a purpose to allow organizing individual sections of optimisations

wind spruce
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Surely there is no pressure on updating it now. 😆

frank raven
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You're free to always include things here 🙂

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And I'll add them

wind spruce
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Hell no, Dragonite did great work on that! If anything it'll be a PR to his current work.

frank raven
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👌

visual tusk
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now ya just got to automate it so that a bot command can compare two different code paths and display the results. Hope you have an enterprise account for automation 😉

frank raven
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Command line building is free lol

visual tusk
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Wait, since when

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I thought that was a enterprise thing

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Did that change recently or am I just really dumb lol

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Or was it specific CI/CD pipeline stuff that was behind enterprise

frank raven
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This was during when we had subscriptions

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But now you just need an account with GameMaker

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That's the only literal requirement

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Not a single penny is needed 🙂

frank raven
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But that's perfectly fair

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And fine to be locked behind Enterprise

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And it is possible to make a bot handle a quick benchmark run too

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Would have to be basically:
/runbenchmark name_of_branch -> pulls repo branch -> compile + run on linux -> save results to text file -> load in text file and send results

visual tusk
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shows ya how much attention I pay to things

hybrid lava
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do we have any tests for how much try/catch slows down code ?

frank raven
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None at the moment

hybrid lava
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I'm avoiding using it, as I suspect it affects performance, but I may be wrong, however, I have no idea what test would be best for that

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iterating 100.00 over array with 100.000, 50.000 and 0 elements, and putting try/catch inside vs. iterating over 100.000 items ?

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sth like this

opal harness
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i did a few tests on try-catch a while ago (pre-benchmark tool) and they didnt really slow things down all that much unless you did something ridiculous like log every caught error to the console

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unclear if that's because try-catch isnt as slow as everyone thinks it is, or if it's because literally everything in gml is just that slow

steady cedar
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I once tested try-catch as a way to collapse a call-stack and return value. In VM it was fine, but in YYC it was surprisingly slow.

frank raven
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From what I recall, only catching is slow.

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If you get no errors, it’s almost no performance hit

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But I haven’t personally tested that fully, at least in my own game it’s fine

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wind spruce