Slow Page Load Times

FidesFrater · November 2014

So I am pretty new to Twine but I have had some experience programming. Not much but some. Now I was working on a small project where the player randomly encounters different creatures and traps and treasure while dungeon crawling. It is basically a rougelike. I know I could have done this in other programs but I wanted to challenge myself and do it in Twine.

My problem is that I have a page of code that seems to choke up twine. It works but only after a 20-40 second freeze up. What could be causing this? Is my code wrong? Am I doing something that is causing it to slow up? Here is the code:

<> <<if $Combat > 0>> <<print "You did <<$Attack>> damage!">> <<print "The <<$Monster_T1>> did <<$Monster_T1_Attack>> damage!">> <<endif>> <<if $Defense < 1>> <<print "You have been defeated! You wake up back at the [[Shop]]">> <<endif>> <<if $Monster_T1_Defense < 1>> <<print "You have defeated the <<$Monster_T1>>">> [[Return to the Shop|Shop]] <<endif>> <<endnobr>> <> <<if $Defense > 0>> <<if $Monster_T1_Defense > 0>> Attack: <<print $Attack>> Defense: <<print $Defense>> Money: <<print $Money>> <<$Monster_T1>> Mosnter Attack: <<$Monster_T1_Attack>> Monster Defense: <<$Monster_T1_Defense>> [[Attack the <<$Monster_T1>>|Fight_T1][$Monster_T1_Defense -=$Attack, $Defense -= $Monster_T1_Attack, $Combat += 1]] [[Flee to the Shop|Shop]] <<endif>> <<endif>> <<endnobr>>

Please let me know what is going on here again I am pretty new to this program.

greyelf · November 2014

The slow down is caused by your <<print>> macro calls with embed display shorthand form macros. eg. <<$variable>>

When you write <<$variable>> the parser has to work out what you want it to do, are you calling a <<macro>>, are you asking it to <<display>> a passage, or are you asking it to <<print>> a variable's value, and working this out takes a while. Once it worked out that you wanted to <<print>> a variable it then notices that you have embed a <<print>> macro within a <<print>> macro and this causes some recursive magic which it eventually works out. Times this by four instances in your code and it takes a while. I suggest not using the display shorthand form.

Instead of doing it the way you have, try the following:

<<print "You did <<$Attack>> damage!">> becomes <<print "You did " + $Attack + " damage!">> <<print "The <<$Monster_T1>> did <<$Monster_T1_Attack>> damage!">> becomes <<print "The " + $Monster_T1 + " did " + $Monster_T1_Attack + " damage!">> <<print "You have defeated the <<$Monster_T1>>">> becomes <<print "You have defeated the " + $Monster_T1>>

FidesFrater · November 2014

Thank you very much for this piece of information. My story runs very smooth now. I had no idea that using the <<>> to declare my variables inside a print macro would cause this problem.

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