As the title says, is it possible to get the current memory used in Arcade? (Typescript is fine, but can you do it in Python too? I want to learn Python for Arcade because I’m good at Python…)
And also, is there like a formula for calculating how much memory would be used? Like one 16×16 tile would be 256 bytes (Actually, I’m probably not correct how tilemaps are used, so someone much smarter than me can correct me)? And one sprite would be 20 bytes + image size? And image size (in bytes) would be length × width?
And does Arcade need 92KB of RAM by itself?
Oh, that was a lot of questions…
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I remember seeing this thread awhile ago: Memory Tools in MakeCode Arcade… which links to this documentation: https://makecode.com/js/profiling#profiling-memory
I don’t know if this still reflects the state-of-the-art for memory profiling in arcade.
… oh, and I just remembered I think I happened to see @mmoskal demoing it once (a small clip buried inside of a much longer video): https://youtu.be/BOzQkxohTIs?t=343
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Ahh, thank you so much for the video! I saw that before and put it in my program, but I didn’t see it in the console (Arcade one, where you can log stuff, not the browser one) so I gave up on that.
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The memory dump on console from the videos lists correct sizes for hardware. Images are half byte per pixel plus a few bytes of overhead.
Arcade uses two screen buffers 10k each. There is also a few k for sound support, and a few more for low level system stuff. Most of the rest is for the user program. For realistic games 96k works out to enough.
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