which way better

[tipforeveryone]

I wonder how the performance is in 2 ways of using variables in lua.

Which one is better when there are many of pivots which can be attached script, each script has its own "self." variables

Method 1: Use table for everything

Script.table = {} --create masster table of scripts

function Script:Start()
  table.category1 = {}
  table.category1.variable_1 = somevalue
  table.category1.variable_2 = somevalue
  ...
  table.category1.variable_n = somevalue

  table.category2 = {}
  table.category2.variable_1 = somevalue
  table.category2.variable_2 = somevalue
  ...
  table.category2.variable_n = somevalue
end

Method 2: Use Script.variable only

Script.valuable_1 = something
Script.valuable_2 = something

function Script:Start()
	self.valuable_3 = something
	self.valuable_4 = something
	...
	self.valuable_n = something
end

 

[Josh]

The second one will be imperceptibly faster, but it's also less code to write. If you absolutely needed to categorize things you could just name the variable something like self.categoryname_valuename.