Local

[Drakath]

What is more efficient:

This:

function showMoney(source) 
    local playermoney = getPlayerMoney ( source ) 
    outputChatBox(playermoney) 
end 

or this:

function showMoney(source) 
    outputChatBox(getPlayerMoney ( source )) 
end 

Is it worth storing something in local if you are gonna use it only once?

[Castillo]

I don't know if it's "worth", but there's no point if you are just going to use it once.

[Jaydan]

Well, it would make your script more readable but every time you create a variable it stores it in the memory so technically speaking I guess it would be more efficient if you didn't assign a variable to it. Either way the performance isn't going to increase/decrease greatly so do whatever you prefer

[IIYAMA]

Well if you wanted to know that:

local player = getRandomPlayer () 
  
  
--test 1 --  
local timeNow = getTickCount() 
  
function setMoney1() 
    local playermoney = getPlayerMoney ( player ) 
    setPlayerMoney(player,playermoney) 
end 
  
for i=1,100000 do 
    setMoney1() -- call the function 
end 
outputChatBox(getTickCount()-timeNow .. " ms (with variable)") 
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-- test 2 -- 
local timeNow = getTickCount() 
  
function setMoney2() 
    setPlayerMoney(player,getPlayerMoney ( player )) 
end 
  
for i=1,100000 do 
    setMoney2() -- call the function 
end 
outputChatBox(getTickCount()-timeNow .. " ms (without variable)") 
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