it's the same branch... reopening the old one.

ugh. comments in the other PR. Mostly around just tighter levelend code.

Any progress on testing and mergin this?

This patch is making a significant difference after multiple tests, thank you for it.

@Headline Any potential ETA for testing or any way I could help with testing to speed process-up?

I personally along with other people in comments so far tested change and have experienced no issues and only performance improvements!

• Thanks

Based on the map in #1935 , ported for CS:S
Without alliedmodders/metamod-source@f2d9d3e server make a big timeout for 10s at every round start.

Based on the same machine, configs, hardware, os, metamod version (latest).
Using SM 1.12 build 6954:
Here some results:

Stock SM:

4191 frames sampled for 28.60 seconds
Average 146.53 fps, 6.82 ms per frame
Peak 134.12 ms frame
99 pct of time accounted for

This commit patch:

MM:S 1.12.0-dev+1192 (speed up by 42.7%.)

4195 frames sampled for 28.56 seconds
Average 146.89 fps, 6.81 ms per frame
Peak 76.90 ms frame
99 pct of time accounted for

MM:S 1.11.0-dev+1155 (speed up by 46.52%.)
(improvement come from f2d9d3e)

4195 frames sampled for 28.63 seconds
Average 146.57 fps, 6.82 ms per frame
Peak 71.73 ms frame
99 pct of time accounted for

Stock: profiler__2024-02-06_18-01-09.log
Band Aid patch with MM 1.12: profiler__2024-02-06_19-43-26.log
Band Aid patch with MM 1.11 (including f2d9d3e) :profiler__2024-05-18_11-11-48.log

I uptaded my preivous message with the difference related to MetaMod:Source with and without Replace fscanf with faster parsing commit. It also make a nice difference.