Performance of Lists & Making a large list

[OmniLotus00]

Part1:

I wanted to make a shop system that was very easy to update and fast. However I'm worried about the performance & speed while looping through a list (that has like 125+ items) splitting and then comparing E.G. Section 1 contains "Bruh" .

Part2:

To make the shop above I was thinking of using a list with a string like this "name||currency||amount||limit", so how would I make a big list.

 

If you know how to answer to my 2 questions or a better way to do it, please leave some examples.

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by OmniLotus00

[Deflecto]

You could preload the inventory once when the script is loaded, and then make each player open this inventory as long as it can't be edited by players.

If you have concern that looping over the list will cause a lot of lag even just when preloading the inventory, enough to cause a crash, you could make your script slow down whenever what you're doing takes more than a tick.

 

Example:

on script load:
 set {_inv} to inventory with 6 rows named "Example Shop"
 set {_lag} to 1 tick after now
 loop {shopcontents::*}:
  set {_i} to loop-index
  set {_i} to {shopcontents::%{_i}%}
  #do any modifications to {_i} here
  add {_i} to {_inv}
  {_lag} is not more than now:
   wait 1 tick
   set {_lag} to 1 tick after now
   #Skript has delayed an entire tick, so rather than letting this continue, we're going to wait a tick

 set {shopinv} to {_inv}
 #Finish loading the shop

command /shop:
 trigger:
  open {shopinv} for the player
  #Remember to cancel inventory click and drop events!

 

https://forums.skunity.com/threads/vanilla-guis.8939/

 

Also just putting this link here in case you have any trouble creating the GUI itself.