
Rapidly accelerating trains, thus using less processor time overall. Zooming in on the graph a bit to get rid of those and see the lines better, we get this:įrom this we can see that while the slower trains do have a lower processing overhead when accelerating more slowly (likely because of fewer collision checks being performed), the journey takes significantly less time with more The large spikes are caused by smoke (as discussed in test-000103). Since the data is available, it is interesting to look at the per-tick times for each test. Any reduction in per-tick processing caused by moving trains more slowly is more than made up for by the fact the journeys don't last as long with faster trains. This would present pretty close to best case performanceįrom this it is quite clear that the faster trains are better. The minimum time tick of each of the 10 runs was taken, and then all of those minimums were added together to create a total run time for each map. 2000 ticks is enough time that even the slowest trains (coal) makes it from start to end, and stops for a bit. The test was then run for 2000 ticks on each map in verbose mode, ten times per map.

The distance between Start and End stations is approximately 520 tiles. All start stations are connected to the circuit network and set to send the signal to the trains. The test consists of 1000 6-12 trains facing east. On the r/technicalfactorio discord server, flame_sla was wondering if slower trains (using non-nuclear fuel) were more UPS efficient than nuclear fueled trains.

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