[Defconapi] Extensive use of SendChatMessage 4 - Conclusion

[Jakub Gemrot]

CONCLUSION!

I've finally confirmed that SendChatMessage() is a method to blame!

Check the code.

Rule of thumb:
If you send one message per 10 update()s, the DefCon will run just OK.
If you send 1 or more messages per update(), you're asking for trouble
- the performance of DefCon will start to degrade.

Jakub

P.S.: my Java code:


    static boolean first = true;

    static int update = 0;

    static long start;

    static long updateStart = 0;

    public static boolean update()
    {
    	if (first) {
    		start = System.currentTimeMillis();
     		first = false;
     		updateStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
     		return true;
    	}
    	
    	++update;
    	    	
    	if (update == 10) {
    	  // send message every 10th update() call
    		long time = System.currentTimeMillis()-updateStart;
    		SendChatMessage(update + "th update after " + time + " ms, one
update avg " + (time/update) + " ms" , CHATCHANNEL_PUBLIC);
    		updateStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
    		update = 0;
    	}
    	
    	return true;
    }

    public static boolean initialise(String[][] _commandLineOptions)
    {
    	SendChatMessage("Initialised...", CHATCHANNEL_PUBLIC);
    	return true;
    }

    public static void addEvent(int _eventType, int _causeObjectId,
int _targetObjectId,
    		int _unitType, float _longitude, float _latitude)
    {
    }