Reducing numbers of memory allocations in game execution

[Volutar]

huh? reply #1.

[Fenyő]

You're right! That's an implicit statement.
Then a correction: "I did not claim that pathfinding is part of the OpenXcom-AI."

[karvanit]

The point is - what creates this drop - I doubt it's pathfinding, because there's no need in pathfinding for xcom AI at all.

Of cource it is used. Every time anything wants to from point A to point B pathfinding is used, that's what creates the path (intermediate positions) that any moving unit uses.

[Volutar]

karviant, where did you get that from? pathfinder is needed only in final stage, when acting, not when estimating "what to do next".

[karvanit]

Ok, my bad. It is used in the BattlescapeState code, but only at the end.
The visibility calculations are O(N) though, in the number of Battleunits, and they are run every step of every moving unit.

[grrussel]

A new memory allocation reduction patch.