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GameMaker is more than smart enough in a lot of cases where you may have “self[$ "foo"] = "bat";” to compile it down to its hah variant.

Whereas something like “self[$ key] = "bar";” is not optimised for us. But as I’ve said, usually you don’t need this level of optimisation.

- Frequently accessing the exact same variable via the struct accessor (or struct_get/set function)
- The variable name is not known at compile time (this includes constant strings via the accessor or functions)
- The performance impact on hashing for each accessor is high enough that you need this.

In the GameMaker sense, as others have mentioned, a variable hash is essentially the underlying value that represents a variable. (So “foo = “bar”, the compiler will compile it down to “hash_of_foo = “bar”)

Though, it’s not super useful unless you are:

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how Microsoft ends up handling Windows, with the way things are going.

I'm not surprised, but I had felt quite lucky for awhile. Given that I have been often asked in the past, despite how old I am. I guess maybe one day I'll look older than 16!

Oh gosh, I’m sorry to hear. I hope things get better!

Here for you! 🫂💜

Thank you!

Pinging @gameengines.bsky.social is preferably recommended, as it is much easier for me to track these kinds of requests in one space (in case I am busy) I’ll handle it soon (after I get some sleep).

Do whatever makes you the most happy. Even if that just means taking a break from things and coming back to it later.
There's always many opportunities to come back to it!

Thank you!!

Thank you!!

Oh I do like writing documentation, just I'm in the middle of writing a huge explanation on how Lexicon's new text elements work, and it is a lot to break down haha. I am not done yet either.

Lots of magic.