Advanced Scripting Techniques
The final step in your Lua mastery journey - professional scripting for large-scale games
Course Sections
Advanced Script Optimization
Learn how to write high-performance scripts that run efficiently even in complex game environments. This section covers optimization techniques, performance profiling, and best practices for writing scalable code.
Key Topics:
- Memory management and garbage collection
- Optimizing loops and table operations
- Using micro-profiling to identify bottlenecks
- Trading memory for performance (and vice versa)
- Coroutine optimization strategies
optimized_loop.lua
-- Unoptimized loop
local function slowFunction()
local result = {}
for i = 1, 1000 do
table.insert(result, { position = Vector3.new(i, 0, 0) })
end
return result
end
-- Optimized loop
local function fastFunction()
local result = table.create(1000) -- Pre-allocate capacity
for i = 1, 1000 do
result[i] = { position = Vector3.new(i, 0, 0) }
end
return result
end