koobas.hobune.stream
Static reference cost
Hey,
Let's say that i have some singleton classes, like this for example:
public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
public static Player instance;
void Awake()
{
instance = this;
}
}
Is it fine to use Player.instance a lot in other scripts, or should cache it in a variable on start and use that instead?
calling Player.instance is ultra cheap. It's as negligible as a straw against a huge metal beam
Nice analogy ^^. Fun fact: static references are actually faster than instance fields. static fields can be read from / written to with a single opcode. Instance fields always need the "this" pointer pushed on the stack before they can be read / written.
However do not start using static fields all over the place because they are "faster". This is beyond any recognisable scale. Also keep in $$anonymous$$d the code is finally JIT compiled to native code. So the actual implementation looks different
