I wonder which of these functions makes the game work less hard: GetEquipped vs. IsWeaponInList.

Unless your formlist has thousands of entries, there really wouldnt be a noticable difference.

As such, it would depend on the implementation details. It seems form lists are linked lists, so the price of IsWeaponInList would be linear with the number of elements in the list. I'm unsure how GetEquipped is implemented, but if it searches a list of equipped objects, the complexity is the same, though the upper bound on the number of equipped objects is likely much smaller than for a form list. You could ask in the FOSE thread - they must know.

The tinyest differences in the handling can be measured. I need to ask Cipscis for whatever script he wrote that measures this. Or, maybe he writes the stuff on the fly. heeh.

Each time I post a result of an efficiency test in the http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?showtopic=987561 thread, at least recently, I've posted the variation of the script that I've used. If you'd like, I could upload the plugin template that I've used to Fallout 3 Nexus.

Given that http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetEquipped has to compare each item in a list with each biped slot on an actor, whereas http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsWeaponInList presumably extracts a pointer to the weapon and compares only that with each item in the list, I'd expect http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsWeaponInList to be more efficient. There's also the fact that, if http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetEquipped is more efficient than http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsWeaponInList, then there'd be very little use for http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsWeaponInList, depending on how your form lists have been set up.

Cipscis

Just uploaded a template for comparing code:
CodeComparison 1.0 by Cipscis @ Fallout 3 Nexus: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11239

Cipscis

If anyone's wondering what happened to this, Tarrant has posted his results http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?act=findpost&pid=15655681. For the purposes of checking if an actor's weapon is in a form list, http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsWeaponInList is considerably more efficient than http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetEquipped.

Cipscis

Hey Cipcsis,

I am going through my code and maybe you will know something that I don't, on this one. I'm checking the GECK WIKI and I don't see anything so far.

I have a block of code whose sole purpose is to isolate which exact weapon a follower is holding in his hands. Procedurally, it's already been narrowed down via a formlist check. Each code block is specific to the type of weapon, basically.

But look what function I have been using...

if getequipped WeapMissileLauncher	PhalanxMalcolmStorageREF.additemhealthpercent WeapMissileLauncher 1 WeapHealthFloat	removeitem WeapMissileLauncher 1elseif getequipped WeapMinigun	PhalanxMalcolmStorageREF.additemhealthpercent WeapMinigun 1 WeapHealthFloat	removeitem WeapMinigun 1elseif ...

... Is there a function that you know of that more resembles isweaponinlist that can be applied against a single equipped weapon? I mean... if I test, and it proves to be 50% more efficient to make a formlist containing just one entry for each weapon, I'll probably do it. But, christ? That svcks? Thats an assload of formlists!