most cpu efficient way of accomplishing this
- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:29:08 -0600
Hello all:
I have a quick question.
In my game engine, I want to keep things modularized. This means that I
am using components and modules to add features that do not directly
fall within the core and actual mechanics of a barebones engine.
That said, I have a problem. I want to allow components and/or modules
to register prompt handlers. Essentially all a prompt is is what the
player sees when the mud outputs a chunk of text. You can make your
prompt show hp, max hp, game time, etc etc.
Rather than make everyone go to a specific file and just add their
prompt though, i want to be able to add it to the world object, but this
leads me to a question.
I want to use the most efficient way of doing this. My current idea is
something like this:
std::map<char, boost::function<std::string (void)> > _prompts;
But the std::map is not an actual hashtable, so this would be slow. It
is just a collection of std::pairs.
As this is being ran each and every time something gets sent to the
player, I want to make it as fast as possible, so ideas would be
welcome. Is there a standard way of doing this? I'd rather not have to
write my own hash table just for this. I know about hash_map, but it
isn't in the standard, which means not everyone will have it.
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Take care,
Ty
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