Help with Conway's Game of Life

[lionheart921]

Hi. Everything runs fine with my project, however I feel like it is very slow.

I have tried messing around with the warp blocks but that hasn't worked.

Project is at Snap! Build Your Own Blocks

I have found out that it is the update block that is being slow.

Thanks in advance!

[cymplecy]

Speed seems fine to me

[joecooldoo]

the speed seems reasonable for me as well... how fast is it running for you?

[coder_07]

for me i only get 1fps (but i'm using an outdated loaner from my school rn so it might be bc of that)

[codegang]

@geokid you should try using tables

[dardoro]

This script was 5 x faster for me (300 => 60 ms)

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Calculating a sum of the neighbors is a convolution with a matrix

1,1,1
1,0,1
1,1,1

and can be easily implemented by a hyper-sum of the shifted state.
This way ~30 ms can be achieved.

EDIT, hyper-sum version

[geokid]

Did you mean to use my @name?

[cybersteve547]

its a bit slow, but not too much.

[codegang]

yes

[cookieclickerer33]

thats slower i think

[codegang]

how
isnt a table just a list of lists

[specialred]

yeah it is
or a 2-dimensional list

[geokid]

Why are you telling me to "try using tables"?

[geokid]

I did not start this topic. You probably thought I did because my profile picture was shown next to the link, since I was the last one to post before you posted.

[codegang]

ah
sorry i must of misstacken you for @lionheart921