Asynchronous Tick Loop

What Something that I think would be greatly appreciated would be an asynchronous version of the tick loop function.

How Instead of the loop function being synchronous we could define it as async loop(). We could have events, promises, etc and we can simply use await Promise.all(promises) at the end of our code to allow for efficient multitasking in our code.

Why I think that this would greatly improve the performance capabilities of some scripts if implemented properly and would reduce server strain.

[Pauan]

@Hexcede Truthfully, I’ve never fully understood how the performance benefit of promises is meant to come into play

The performance benefits of Promises is that they allow you to handle thousands of I/O connections efficiently. For example, a web server might have millions of sockets running at the same time. Or you might be reading from thousands of files simultaneously. Promises can handle that very well, because the I/O operations are happening in the background.

But if you’re not doing I/O things… if it’s just synchronously updating some game state, then Promises will make your code slower, because Promises are slower than synchronous functions.

[o4kapuk]

As said above, using async in code can not provide any benefit due to synchronous game API, and, more importantly, because server runs game scripts on a single dedicated core.