Manifest Destiny was when Oz and Rincrast and some others got together for a while, and came up with the script pack for Manifest Destiny, That has been a long while ago.

Heh Oz was never with Manifest Destiny. It is just some of Oz's scripts that Rincrast reworked. It's not all Oz's scripts.

Just his ptrader and foton script, IIRC.

ya i took a look around grimys, ugh, so many new scripts, i dunno even where to start. what did rincrast change? actually, no, i got like a million questions about the changes in scripts in the past few years, i'll harass someone at random on icq later today

He just changed the way the buy is handled in the ptrader. One for each buy setting (speed, best, etc) I think.

For foton, he changed some of the way the loop is handled to speed it up. Still, my public torper is a little faster these days anyway. Foton scripts have come quite a ways since then.

Be faster still if you fixed the alien filter.Gettext ..please!

You wanna rewrite it and compare tested speeds? Go ahead. If it's really any faster I'll use it.

Already tested quite some time ago no need.Ill post it on grimy's and peeps can edit as they please.I do want to thank EP in helping me with it tho.Credit where credit is due as they say

Ok, there are a couple problems w/ that snippet.

1: Very short alien names might mess it up. Short trader names definately will because of the cutText. It needs fixed for that.

2: As a general rule "EP says this command is faster" isn't always true. Much depends on how a command is implemented and what parameters are passed. Let's actually speed test it ourselves so we know for sure?

When I did a side by side comparison of your code to mine I got...

Yours: Milliseconds per execution: 0.0531
Mine: Milliseconds per execution: 0.0491

Maybe you can speed yours up, I don't know. I can probably speed mine up, too. I haven't messed with it for well over a year so it's a bit outdated there. IIRC some of getText was changed in 2.04, so perhaps getText was much slower in 2.03 than it is now... I don't know about that. But I encourage you to speed test the resultant code yourself and see.

I'll work a bit on the problem today and see if I can get something that beats both. When we get this fast it's a bit tricky since wierd randomy factors can swing things .01 either direction.

Edit:
Ok, dinked around a bit and came up with this. Speed tested it at .0416 over 100000 trials, which is about as fast as I think I'm going to get this.



Didn't even need a getText or cutText there at all.

Edit:
BAH! I beat it already. Put new code over on the alien filter discussion thread.