Await Question
I'm curious what happens if you use await for a signal, but the signal is never received? Does this cause some kind of hangup?
For example if I have a function structured like so:
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func foo():
do something
await signal.finished
do something else
And the "finished" signal never comes, does the await call just hang indefinitely?
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Just tried this out in one of my projects, here's what happened:
do something works without a problem. do something else never goes off. foo() again any number of times and do something will still go off. Having it waiting in the background didn't seem to have much of a performance impact. I started 5000+ of them and foo() only took up ~0.6% frametime with the rest of my game running alongside it.
Thanks so much for testing that out! That's very informative and even more thorough than what I was looking for! I wasn't at my computer when I posted this so I couldn't test it myself.
I ended up connecting the signal to a secondary function to run on finished to avoid any potential memory errors, but it's super helpful to know that the performance impact is minimal.