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→Queries versus Content Patcher conditions: fix typo
Which you use is mainly a performance tradeoff:
Which you use is mainly a performance tradeoff:
* Content Patcher's <samp>When</samp> conditions are highly optimized and cached, so thousands of patches can check the same condition without impacting performance and the resulting changes are written once to the asset. Then there's no performance impact after the asset edit, since it's just plain unconditional data. However the asset is reloaded when patches are added/removed, which may impact performance if they change often in some cases (like reloading a map or indoor/outdoor NPC appearance).
* Content Patcher's <samp>When</samp> conditions are highly optimized and cached, so thousands of patches can check the same condition without impacting performance and the resulting changes are written once to the asset. Then there's no performance impact after the asset edit, since it's just plain unconditional data. However the asset is reloaded when patches are added/removed, which may impact performance if they change often in some cases (like reloading a map or indoor/outdoor NPC appearance).
* A game state query has no caching, so it can significantly affect performance when it's checked often. For example, a thousand game state queries checked each update tick means sixty thousand condition evaluations per second. On the other hand, game state queries are faster in cases where the conditions are checked rarely and doing so avoids reloading textures or maps (like <samp>ChooseAppearance</samp> in <samp>Data/Characters</samp> or <samp>Music</samp> in <samp>Data/Locations</samp>).
* A game state query has no caching, so it can significantly affect performance when it's checked often. For example, a thousand game state queries checked each update tick means sixty thousand condition evaluations per second. On the other hand, game state queries are faster in cases where the conditions are checked rarely and doing so avoids reloading textures or maps (like <samp>Appearance</samp> in <samp>Data/Characters</samp> or <samp>Music</samp> in <samp>Data/Locations</samp>).
==Built-in queries==
==Built-in queries==