[Lenny the Cup]

I made a quick benchmark script to see which was faster, just sharing them here for the record:

pawn Код:

#include <a_samp>

main()
{
    new 
        StartTick, 
        StopTick, 
        string[16], 
        string2[16];
        
    format(string2, 17, "I like big butts");
    StartTick = GetTickCount();
    for(new i; i < 1000000; i++)
    {
        format(string, 17, string2);
    }
    StopTick = GetTickCount();
    printf("format: %d ms", StopTick-StartTick);
    for(new i; i < 1000000; i++)
    {
        strpack(string, string2, 17);
    }
    StopTick = GetTickCount();
    printf("strpack: %d ms", StopTick-StartTick);
    return 1;
}

Result:
[21:40:19] format: 351 ms
[21:40:19] strpack: 524 ms

Conclusion: format is faster.

[WackoX]

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Код:

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[Placebo]

Cool, that's nice to know

[randomkid88]

Shouldn't you re-fetch StartTick after the first code executes? If not, aren't you taking the time it takes for format AND strpack to execute (aka when the server started), which is not what you want. You want the time each section of code took to execute. I did that and got this:

Код:

format: 319 ms
strpack: 137 ms

pawn Код:

#include <a_samp>

main()
{
    new
        StartTick,
        StopTick,
        string[16],
        string2[16];

    format(string2, 17, "I like big butts");
    StartTick = GetTickCount();
    for(new i; i < 1000000; i++)
    {
        format(string, 17, string2);
    }
    StopTick = GetTickCount();
    printf("format: %d ms", StopTick-StartTick);
    StartTick = GetTickCount();
    for(new i; i < 1000000; i++)
    {
        strpack(string, string2, 17);
    }
    StopTick = GetTickCount();
    printf("strpack: %d ms", StopTick-StartTick);
    return 1;
}

[Lenny the Cup]

Haha Jesus, sorry you're right I was a bit tired, guess that's why I missed that!

[Nero_3D]

so strpack was like expected faster but what has format to do with strpack or vica versa ?

[randomkid88]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nero_3D so strpack was like expected faster but what has format to do with strpack or vica versa ?

My question too. You can't effectively use strpack to put arguments into a string. You would have to use strins which would be difficult, time-consuming, and inefficient.

[Lenny the Cup]

I often see people use format to copy a string to another, so I was curious to see which way was actually more effective. Like I said I'm only posting it here for the record, so it's somewhere to be found

[Nero_3D]

Than you missed to read that topic => Code optimisation