I’m just curious about which is the most efficient way of doing this kind of node enumiration:

for i in something():
    o=[var1,var2,var3,varN][i]
    o.new()
    o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops()
    add_child(o)

or

for i in something():
    match i:
        0:
            o=var1
            o.new()
            o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops()
            add_child(o)
        1:
            o=var2
            o.new()
            o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops()
            add_child(o)
        2:
            o=var3
            o.new()
            o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops()
            add_child(o)
        N-1:
            o=varN
            o.new()
            o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops()
            add_child(o)

or

var items = [var1,var2,var3,varN]
for i in something():
    o=items[i]
    o.new()
    o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops()
    add_child(o)

Or is there a more efficient way of doing it?

Edit: Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Is it better to constantly get something from an “unstored list”, store the list in a variable, or not use a list and use a match statement instead? Do they have any advantages/disadvantages that make them better in certain situations?

  • I Cast FistEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    For the first case, it’s probably better to use Dictionary instead of a match on an array, or matrix as you presented.

    var dictio = {"key":value, "key2":value2}

    Unless you’re dealing with over 1k elements, any performance difference between Dict and Array might as well be a margin of error. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_dictionary.html

    For that for you presented later, it should be for i in items:, i then will point directly to the value in that position of the array. o = i

    What you are doing, or attempting to, isn’t clear

    At face value, none of those things are “apples to apples”, the first thing is a matrix or Vector2. The second is simply a match, which is “a series of if/elif”. Efficiency here comes mainly from the type of of the object being matched: bool is the fastest, int probably second, then float, then string. The third you’re just running through the array. All different things, each useful for a different purpose and none directly equivalent to another, thus it’s impossible to say which is the most efficient.