performance question

Unity Engine
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hey I’m used to using ScriptableObject a lot when letting a base class inherit.

Now I’m wondering about the benefits of this.

for example a Bullet class.
When using MonoBehaviour, for it to move it would run the Update (or FixedUpdate) for every instance of a bullet alive in the scene.
Thats a lot of functions running at the same time doing the same stuff.
while using ScriptableObject I would run one Update iterating through a list containing all the instances of the bullets and tell them to move.

I’m far from a pro programmer, so thats why I wanted to ask if there is a performance difference between the two?

2

No difference. Someone asked something similar once before… end of the day, the code still needs to be run for every bullet (however I feel bullet is a bad choice, since a bullet should have force added to it once, thus not needing the Update function).

3

ok thanks. yes bad example maybe.
so are there other performance differences using ScriptableObject over MonoBehaviour?
or is it just a matter of taste for building up a system focused around code objects or game objects.