Optimization of loading NPC's

[Jomex]

It takes now 29(ms) to load whole character.inc converted to lua.

 

[ShadowDragon]

It takes now 29(ms) to load whole character.inc converted to lua.

Hm. Not much of an improvement over the method in your first post, but it's quite a significant change when compared to old method and old Lua version (earlier in the thread). Nice job.

 

[Langstra]

So that is a 31% profit if I am correct. How many Lua files are there and how much overall performance profit could you have?
Quite impressive that you have made such progress, but if there are very few Lua files (I have no idea) to load, the overall loading time would not be significant effected.

 

[Jomex]

Time: 54(ms) <= lua 5.1 method
Time: 29(ms) <= lua 5.2 method

46.2% faster...

I am gonna check if it's better to make whole resource in lua.

@EDIT:
Tests done ....

For Items with property like Spec_Item there is no sense in making it lua.

Just loading the file takes 2x more time than source function which also adds to memory....

But rest can be I think

 

[spikensbror]

The dataset tables have no reason for being lua, but replacing the flyff scanner scripts with lua is totally reasonable.
Sure, the datasets are read with the scanner but it's not to be considered as a script.