Is Javascript really that much faster than Events?

I just tried the top-down shooter example done using Javascript and it felt way faster, snappier, and more responsive than the same template done with events.

Is Javascript really that much faster than Events?

I know Javascript is a fast programming language (not as fast as C++, but still really fast comparatively), but the difference I felt when playing the version programmed in javascript was mind-blowing. It felt like a completely different engine!

I like when games feel snappy and responsive like that. Are there any measurements showing the difference between pure Javascript coding as opposed to pure Event system coding? Thanks. :)

Interesting.

With a long background in animation and UX design, I'm very sensitive to frames-per-second, responsiveness and overall feel and speed of an application. That's why I chose Construct in the first place, it achieved a higher frame rate and just felt smoother than any other game builder I had tried at the time.

That being said, I did notice a huge difference in the snappiness of the javascript code as opposed to events. It felt like a completely different engine and I had never felt that kind of responsiveness from this engine before.

It made me want to program a game entirely out of Javascript to achieve that kind of responsiveness.

It's interesting that you got something to perform 10x better using Javascript code rather than events alone...

I also program iOS apps using XCode and Swift and even then, I always find myself wishing the responsiveness was better on the touch screen. It's not quite instant. (I've seen it measured as high as 300ms in the worst cases.) It slightly slower on android. I just like really snappy responsive design. :) Javascript seems to achieve that with this engine. :)

That being said, I did notice a huge difference in the snappiness of the javascript code as opposed to events. It felt like a completely different engine and I had never felt that kind of responsiveness from this engine before.

I tested two templates for Ghost Shooter (event-based and JS-based), and noticed no difference. As others have mentioned, events in C3 are interpreted to JS, so for most of them there shouldn't be any difference whatsoever.

In other words, re-creating functionality of C3 standard plugins and behaviors with JS would be a waste of time, because the engine already does this for you.

I only use JS when I need features that don't exist in C3, or when processing huge arrays, for example image data of a large drawing canvas.