Unityscript - Which GetComponent is faster ?

[Fattie]

Here are two versions of GetComponent in Unityscript

Here’s one…

private var brain:BrainScript;
brain = head.GetComponent(BrainScript);

And here’s the other, the Generic …

private var brain:BrainScript;
brain = head.GetComponent.<BrainScript>();

Does anyone know: is one faster than the other?

(Note … you can also I believe use GetComponent by passing it a string. So, GetComponent(“BrainScript”) would also work. If you do that, it is very slow. Generally one would never do that. I’m not asking about that. I’m asking about the two variations above where you pass in the type.)

Does anyone know if there’s any speed difference, or indeed any difference at all, between the two?

Cheers!

[GerryM]

Interesting, after testing it with this script, it seems the first version is slightly faster (about 1.4) than the second version (about 1.7). You might want to check for yourself in your specific setting, though.

function Start () {

  var sw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
  sw.Start();

  for (var i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
  {
    var brain = GetComponent(BrainScript); // Version 1
    //var brain = GetComponent.<BrainScript>(); // Version 2
  }

  sw.Stop();
  Debug.Log("Elapsed = "+sw.Elapsed);
}