georgeshao / arcadeplus

[DEPRECATED] Experimental performant fork of Arcade, a popular graphics library for Python

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arcadeplus's Issues

Compare with arcade 2.4

Hello

I noticed this fun fork a while ago and wanted to run the perf test when arcade 2.4 was released. It's now out with some significant optimizations. Running the perf tests with 200 lines was not really enough to make a fair comparison so I tried with 2_000 and 20_000.

Here are the results:

I did not look into why arcadeplus for some reason starts at 120 fps so the early part of the curve is not that easy to make sense of. I also noticed that processing time is not included in the perf test. arcadeplus do have higher processing time, but I guess it doesn't matter for < 2000 lines.

You could probably benefit greatly from rebasing with the current 2.4 branch (maintenance). It's not a trivial amount of work, but you could definitely see more speed improvements. There are valid use cases for caching primitives at least as long as they don't move around too much and the amount of primitives are not enormous. The arcadeplus perf test peaks at 600MB memory at the end of the 20k version while arcade peaks at around 85MB.

Release notes : https://arcade.academy/release_notes.html?highlight=release#version-2-4

Have a nice day.