I’ve been looking around the internet and such trying to find out how much cpu heat operations such as addition and multiplication take although I haven’t really found any answers, I was wondering if anyone knows how much cpu these operation take because I want to plan in advance for how much cpu somthing will take because I don’t want to start just to find out it won’t work because too much heat. I tried asking AI to find answers but it couldn’t find anything. I also have questions about how cpu heat actually works because the AI said that optimisation tips where to run things in parallel as in if an addition takes 1% then running 2 in the same exacution will take 1.5% instead of 2% and I’d like to know whether that’s true (I know addition doesn’t actually take 1% cpu heat although I didn’t want to deal with decimals but also when I preform a single addition the cpu is still 0.00 which suggest addition takes less that 0.00% of the cpu heat therefore I don’t actually know how much cpu heat addition takes). I suppose I could test myself although… actually I don’t have any excuse not to so maybe I’ll try although I would like to know if anyone else knows anything especially with the 50% increase. Also things like does processing a float cost more than processing an int would be nice to know.
Oh I forgot to mention I know doing more stuff less time can make heat go up more than over less (as in if I have a recurring circuits then setting a delay chip from 0 to 0.05 will cost less cpu heat (I’m recalling that from memory so if that’s false then sorry although I’m pretty sure that’s true))
I dont think theres an exact number available for public use. I do know that you shouldnt need to worry that much about what you use, especially if you are working inside rooms v2. Don’t forget that ‘Heat’ gets reset on each frame, so if you ever need to separate heat, you can just add like a sequence or a delay set to 0. I dont usually worry about my heat usage, but obviously I make sure I optimize where I can. Doing what I do, I never really run out of heat unless I’m doing something stupid with for each.
If you have any questions or need tips on saving heat lmk!