make replacement of LSL Constants optional

[RayZopf]

https://code.google.com/archive/p/lslforge/issues/42
Posted on Mar 31, 2014 by Happy Wombat
I compared LSL scripts memory usage of

lsl code which LSLForge optimized/with replaced constants (TRUE, FALSE, etc.) to the same script with manually 'unreplaced' constants and did not find differences - at least not after the very first script init was done.

To me it looks like MONO handles those constants quite good http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Constants_vs_Globals

In this case, not replacing constants at least improves script readability and should give no issue unless the line gets too long - so make it optional... maybe call it obfuscation ;)

Comment 1

Posted on Mar 31, 2014 by Happy Wombat
one point where the constant replacement indeed is useful:

llRequestPermissions(g_kOwner, PERMISSION_CONTROL_CAMERA | PERMISSION_TRACK_CAMERA); is replaced by llRequestPermissions(g_kOwner,3072);

here some profiling would be needed to see if this improves any momory usage but esp. server time usage

Would be great to have a replacement/optimization for this case too: if (_perm0 & 2048 && _perm0 & 1024) { (was: if ((perm & PERMISSION_CONTROL_CAMERA) && (perm & PERMISSION_TRACK_CAMERA)) {)