Idea for paradox re beta testing available to all interested

[Darkrenown]

It's a shame too, but I guess it might explain why there are no "HoI3 Beta Tester" Icons, that would put a big target on their heads.

We could use the HoI3 avatars without registering HoI3, but no, no icons. There weren't icons for EUIII or Rome betas either though.

 

[podcat]

I think they have some fundamental design flaws. Mainly I have heard they switched to using Lua scripting which is horrible for performance especially with collections, it has horrible performance with simple key-value hash tables. It's one of the reasons pulling up the leaders list is so god awful slow. Its like a few hundred tuples of a 4 attribute entity and u can count out the seconds it takes to bring up, that should be virtually instantaneous.

Not sure how you can make assumptions about code you havent seen. Lua isnt used for any of that stuff. also luas table performance is pretty good, its one of the faster scripting languages (wins most benchmarks, but of course slower than c++ though).

 

[Chaingun]

I think they have some fundamental design flaws. Mainly I have heard they switched to using Lua scripting which is horrible for performance especially with collections, it has horrible performance with simple key-value hash tables. It's one of the reasons pulling up the leaders list is so god awful slow. Its like a few hundred tuples of a 4 attribute entity and u can count out the seconds it takes to bring up, that should be virtually instantaneous. They have map and texture problems on really simple 2d stuff, that line through the pacific is just not neccesary. They need more staff in the development area. Some of the problems come down to testing, some to poor architecture choices, and others to just having such a small development staff that you don't have the specialists you need, like having a GP perform heart surgery.

Oh dear, hash tables with O(1) lookup. By the way:

Lua 5.0 brought a new algorithm to optimize the use of tables as arrays: it optimizes pairs with integer keys by not storing the keys and storing the values in an actual array. More precisely, in Lua 5.0, tables are implemented as hybrid data structures: they contain a hash part and an array part.

(www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf, The Implementation of Lua 5.0, section 4: Tables)

Let's also repeat the classical mantra that 90% of the execution time is spent in 10% of the code.