Deleting and creating sprites fragments memory?

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Marco A G Pinto

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2011 03:09

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Hello!!!

I was wondering if instead of using:
sprite 1000,0,0,1 : show sprite 1000

and later: hide sprite 1000

If, instead of just hiding I could delete them (and later create again) but I am not sure if this fragments the video memory and/or the standard memory.

I believe that if I just hide the sprites they will continue to use game speed and if I have dozens/hundreds of them hidden it will slow down the game.

Green Gandalf and IanM, do you know the answer?

Thanks!

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>Marco A.G.Pinto
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IanM

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2011 15:22

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TBH, I've no idea.

However, if you are constantly creating and deleting sprites, it might be more efficient to reuse them instead. What the break-even point on that is though, I have no idea.

And I do know that leaving a sprite intact but hidden doesn't have that much of an impact - they are eliminated from the display processing very early in the display update routine, so it wouldn't take too many creates/deletes to end up taking more processing time than just hiding them.

You'll have to try it and see.

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