Didn’t knew [$ "prop"] used more resources and time than .prop. Replaced all of them on my autotile system and reduced the time from avg ~200ms to avg ~20ms.
Amazing job!
Viewing post in Benchmarking GameMaker comments
Variables accessed with the dot operator have their hashes evaluated at compile time, but those accessed with the struct accessor have to have them evaluated at runtime
Edit: Struct lookups which can be determined at compile time now are, so there’s no difference between [$ “prop”] and .prop, but there still is for struct lookups from a variable.