Here is show CoinHunt running at 16x speed. That’s 16x as much code being run per frame. It knocks the framerate from 480 to 380 FPS. So it goes to show you could run 64x+ as much code as CoinHunt on a low end PC. CoinHunt’s main loop (run function) is 1266 lines including many function calls called in loops. So it’s probably 2000+. So you could run 128,000 lines of BooBoo per frame in your run function on a low end PC.
EDIT: Running CoinHunt with +ops shows my guess was way off. I get 15,750 lines per frame (stock speed). So crunching the numbers, it’s a little over a million lines per frame you could do on this PC at 60 FPS.
EDIT2: It doesn’t scale that way though. It seems there is a lot more code in the draw function than I thought. My original estimate wasn’t bad… but it’s actually about 3125 not 2000. So it seems like 200,000 lines of run function is the closer estimate. This draw function has tens of thousands of lines per frame just drawing stars.
EDIT3: This includes all code in loops (each time it’s run counts as 1) and function calls. I think 200,000 “big instructions” per frame is a perfect level of challenge for a single or small team of developers, which is what BooBoo is designed for. Keep in mind this measurement is based on “somewhat average lines of code”.
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