Building for Maximum Speed

Building for maximum speed

Where desired, the following changes can be made to the standard release configuration in order to build for maximum speed:

• Setting the PATHENGINE_FULL_RELEASE preprocessor define turns off interface checking, and any release build assertions.
  (As with assertions, this define can be set up per compilation unit, if finer control of assertion checking is desired.)
• PATHENGINE_SINGLE_THREADED can be used to remove some logic related to thread synchronisation, when only single threaded application is required. (For maximum benefit, the supplied project files or platform configuration should also be modified, e.g. to switch to single threaded run-time libraries.)
• Removing memory tracking instrumentation from the PathEngine dll will remove a small amount of (time and memory) overhead, per memory allocation, if memory allocation counts are not required. (You can do this by removing the memory tracking include line, at the top of 'SDKRoot/code/project/dll/PathEngine.cpp', and commenting out the corresponding setup line. In this case, note that the memory tracking query methods in iPathEngine will all then return 0.)