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The original was posted on /r/godot by /u/zeetu on 2024-10-18 16:55:18+00:00.
This post a few days ago about C++ vs GDScript inspired me to create a more realistic benchmark:
That benchmark did a prime number search which is all well and good but games don't really do that.
My benchmark:
The benchmark simulates two common operations in a grid-based inventory system:
- Finding an available space for a 2x2 item in a 10x10 grid inventory.
- Sorting the inventory by moving all items to the top-left corner in order.
These are common in games and do a better job of highlighting the difference between C# and GDScript.
All the code and results are on GitHub if you want to play with it.
TLDR is that C# is faster but it doesn't matter. Games rarely do thousands of iterations on an inventory and a player won't notice the difference between C# and GD. The sort of the inventory for example: GDScript time: 0.000075 seconds C# time: 0.000014
In the off chance you do need the speed you can easily port the expensive operation to C# or C++