Is there a broadcaster limit?

[d.healey]

Is there a limit on the number of broadcasters I can use in my project, or will I notice any side effects from using lots (potentially 100s) of them?

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey No, the broadcaster map might become a mess, but as long as it's not visible, it won't update.

Why would you create 100s of them? I'm using them in a super complex project and I have about 30 broadcasters.

[Christoph Hart]

Proof:

const var list = [];

const var HUNDREDS = 101;

for(i = 0; i < HUNDREDS; i++)
{
	list.push(Engine.createBroadcaster({
			"id": "broadcaster" + (i+1),
			"args": ["someIndex"]
		}));
}

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart said in Is there a broadcaster limit?:

Why would you create 100s of them? I'm using them in a super complex project and I have about 30 broadcasters.

It's for my downloader app. I wanted to add a broadcaster for each product to track its download progress. Currently I only have a few products but I'm dreaming big :)

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey ah I see. Yes that should be fine and as long as they are not busy and idleing around, they shouldn‘t consume an unreasonable amount of resources.