Improve performance when there are a large number of particles

kaunta / falling-sand

falling sand game.

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Open kaunta opened 4 years ago

kaunta commented 4 years ago

When I have a lot of sand, and then try to draw a wall, gaps appear:

kaunta commented 4 years ago

Should I have the event listeners do less and move the line drawing into the game.tick function?

kaunta commented 4 years ago

I did some work on this and I think it's too complicated to do this for Version 4. My findings:

I can move the heavy lifting out of the event listeners and into the "tick" function with the help of an event queue. But I think I need to implement the queue in a more efficient way than shifting and unshifting an array. Maybe a circular buffer would be more performant.