From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T13:26:23+09:00
Subject: Re: RRobots - ducks, armed and dangerous

On 11/24/05, Simon Kr�ger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
> Harold Hausman wrote:
> > You get a gold star on the chart for the day!
> >
> > Today we can all be thankful for rrobots.rb.
>
> > Here's the listing of my first bot, affectionately titled BotOne. He
> > lays a savage beat down on the aptly named NervousBot, but he is by no
> > means invincible.
>
> to cool.

no, you're too cool. ;)

>
> > #Begin listing
> > [...]
> > #End listing
> >
> > This bot prefers long matches, as he fires low power shots. This, on
> > my machine at least exposes some performance problems associated with
> > shooting a lot. Matching a couple of rapid firing bots brings the app
> > to it's knees after only a few thousand ticks. My first idea where
> > maybe that the bullets were not being cleaned up properly, but looking
> > at the source it looks like they are being remove from the hash and
> > canvas, so I don't know.
>
> I will dive into that (i was able to finish the match, but it slows
> down considerably) maybe i have to 'reuse' old bullets.
>

I've seen some code for circular lists (Gavin K?) that might be a more
efficient way to manage @battlefield.bullets than a hash,  but as far
as optimizing the TK stuff, I haven't the foggiest. I'm super
interested in this game improving though, thanks again for taking the
lead on this, that thread went on too long for *someone* not to put
the rubber to the road.

Keep up the good work,
-Harold