Benchmarking GameMaker

Do you love arguing over whether repeat loops are better than for loops? Well, as it turns out so do about a billion other GameMaker users! Well, we can now put matters such as those to rest by actually, you know, testing it!

This is a little tool that lets you run various bits of sample code to see how its performance compares to similar bits of sample code. There are a handful of example test cases to get you started.

Results are displayed with a few spiffy graphs and you can export them out to a CSV.

The Github repository can be found here, which you may be interested in contributing to. The Readme there has a bunch of additional technical information.

Please don't be awful to people who you see writing "slow" code, because god knows the GameMaker community has a problem with this.

Price

As always,

As usual, the asset is free as-is. I'll fix simple or game-breaking bugs but more involved support requires payment via either Itch or Patreon.  I get the final say in what constitutes "game-breaking."

although in this case I dunno what there really is to break. I might merge in other interesting tests that people come up with though.

Credits

• Duck is by Munin