Invoke() at 0f time (immediately) is not safe

Unity Engine
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Hello,

searched a bit but didn’t see any warning topic about it :

The Invoke(string methodName, float time) method is not safe when time is set at 0f (= supposed to be immediately).
There is a micro delay (like 5 ms) that could create some disorder in your code execution plan, if you’re using it before a block of code for example, while counting on this block to have a priority over your Invoke.

It might come from the fact that Invoke is runtime, unlike a compiled native function, I don’t know.

Anyway, just wanted to warn you about that, using Delegates should be safer I guess.

(until I’m wrong)

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I’ve mentioned it before; I always use something like .001 instead of 0.

No, because you can call the same function without using Invoke and it will run immediately.

–Eric

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Great, thanks for the tip Eric.