Clutter in cfgs Slow Down the engine?

[LordAwsomeness]

Hi I was just wondering if leaving text that the engine wont read slows the game down. Ive been experiencing exponential amounts of engine slowdown and I know it's not my computer since I can run games like pubg and ark at full graphical settings and have 0 issues. But I was wondering if things such as the following slow the engine down from processing as fast

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#	{LA_DISPLAY_ITEM_OPTION "attacks/bolas.png" bolas_1 1 impact ranged lob}
#	{LA_DISPLAY_ITEM_OPTION "attacks/bolas.png" bolas_2 1 impact ranged lob}
#	{LA_DISPLAY_ITEM_OPTION "attacks/bolas.png" bolas_3 1 impact ranged lob}
#	{LA_DISPLAY_ITEM_OPTION "attacks/bolas.png" bolas_4 1 impact ranged lob}
#	{LA_DISPLAY_ITEM_OPTION "attacks/bolas.png" bolas_5 1 impact ranged lob}

I know the engine doesn't read these but I still wonder if I actually went through all of the files if maybe it would speed up just a bit because ive hit a point where at the start of every turn it freezes the game for a full 15-20 seconds and if you click once or twice it will make windows think the game is crashing. I just want to speed up my add-on..

[Ravana]

Comments have minimal influence. Unless you have megabytes of them, do not worry.

[LordAwsomeness]

what could be causing such obscene waittimes then? Could it be all of the variables that I am setting? Would they potentially slow the game down?

[gnombat]

at the start of every turn it freezes the game for a full 15-20 seconds and if you click once or twice it will make windows think the game is crashing

It sounds like it could be taking 15-20 seconds to create the auto-save?

[LordAwsomeness]

It sounds like it could be taking 15-20 seconds to create the auto-save?

how would I disable it? just slide it to 0? or do I need to toggle something so that it doesn't take forever?

EDIT: OMG it was the autosaves!!! It literally goes next turn immediately now!

[LordAwsomeness]

What could I do to speed up how fast it loads into the multiplayer lobby? it takes a whole minute or 2 to do that. My add-on is currently at 32 MB... is there something I could do to make it load after clearing the cache faster?

[Pentarctagon]

Using lua instead of (I'm assuming) boatloads of WML macros would help.

[LordAwsomeness]

Using lua instead of (I'm assuming) boatloads of WML macros would help.

guess after 9 years of fiddling with wml I should actually try and learn lua...

[gfgtdf]

You can also open one of these savefiles with a text editor and see why they are so big ( the time really depends nails on the size of these (uncompressed) files), it's probably just a handful, macros that are expanded too often that you could then replace with something more efficient. Before doing that you might want to switch the safefile format in the wesnoth settings to disable compression to be able to open them.

[LordAwsomeness]

You can also open one of these savefiles with a text editor and see why they are so big ( the time really depends nails on the size of these (uncompressed) files), it's probably just a handful, macros that are expanded too often that you could then replace with something more efficient. Before doing that you might want to switch the safefile format in the wesnoth settings to disable compression to be able to open them.

Wow I did that but I have no idea where to start... the savefile is 119 MBs uncompressed...

[Ravana]

Save it before it gets that large, 4-10MB should be enough to find repeating patterns.

[LordAwsomeness]

Save it before it gets that large, 4-10MB should be enough to find repeating patterns.

like cut the file down? and what am I looking for exactly?

[Ravana]

Not cut, but save it some turns earlier. And looking for repeating parts of code.

[gfgtdf]

Wow I did that but I have no idea where to start... the savefile is 119 MBs uncompressed...

yes thats exactly the problem, and you ahewv to find out whats makes it so big, what i reccomend is to just pick maybe 10 positions inside that file at random look at them and two of them looks similar there is alorady a huge chance that you have found the code that ameks it so big.