From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T18:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating GUIs

Hello Joe,

JVD> But in each polygon array, there's 30 arrays that contain the x/y
JVD> points of the polygon.  So I'm creating 40 points per polygon times
JVD> 500 players = 2000 created arrays on each update.  Probably not the
JVD> most efficient thing to do.

Correct this is an important thing that could be reduced to 0.
You can simply assign a new value to an array with

RARRAY(points)->ptr[i] = rb_float_new(c_x + (x * c_rad - y * s_rad));

in the same way as you iterate over the array.

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