Micro-Optimizations and You: the GameMaker Bytecode

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The Game Maker - The 18th Carol Reed Mystery (2023)
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You can enable verbose compiler output if you build the game from the command line. You can use this to peek beneath the hood and examine the individual instructions that the GameMaker Virtual Machine executes, which can give you some hints about minor performance optimizations!

The GameMaker benchmarking tool:
https://github.com/DragoniteSpam/GMBenchmark
I also put it on Itch:
https://dragonite.itch.io/gmbenchmark

About the Yoyo Compiler:
https://youtu.be/P08i1kCmu3Y

General GameMaker optimization playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrfPwIVWvsnaTmDnM2ptTzR2
3D optimization playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrf_CJSA7fVU1tkjGVv5Sq2t

3D collisions in GameMaker:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrf_VYo26LNl3zN5uwfuC3CC

0:00 Introduction
2:06 Running the asset compiler from the command line
5:25 What's this useful for?
7:36 Debunking the assertion that division is slow
9:51 Is it faster to call the dot product functions, or to do it yourself?
12:30 GameMaker's compiler optimizations
16:21 Final remarks
18:14 The end

#gamemaker
#GameMakerOptimization
#GameMakerBenchmark
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Transition / idle music is by my old friend Kamex:
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