Uh... yet Game Programming... or Is there a way to build tilemap graphics in Rev?

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> I bet you could gain some speed by moving that field lookup into a
> custom property. Field accesses are slower than custom property
> accesses. 

...by about an order of magnitude, depending on what's in the field.
 
> It would be interesting to know if 2D arrays would be faster than
> item/line chunking.

In my tests here I've found that for operations involving sequential access
of all items in a list/elements in an array, stepping the rough each line is
about 20% faster than stepping through each array element.

But for random access arrays are several times faster than line chunks.
 
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