Platformer: Best method?

I have been reading through the tutorials and I see to main platformer tutorials:

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/243/bu ... ide/page-1

and

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/253/ho ... ame/page-1

The first one uses the following method for creating the player image on top of the player block:

Condition: System -> On start of layout

Action: PlayerImages -> Pin: Pin to PlayerBox

While the second uses this method:

Condition: System -> Every Tick

Action: Player -> Set position to PlayerBox

My question is which is the better method? I assume (complete assumption, no data to back this up) that the every tick method will consume more memory.

I think Pin is dependent on timescale, so if you stop time then the player will no longer position to the playerbox, the second method should work whether timescale is 0 (stopped) or not. I think performance-wise it's not a huge difference either way though

I am currently using the every tick method set forth in Ashley tutorial. I just wanted to make sure I am getting every drop of performance out of this thing as I can.

Check this post:

Excellent. Thank you.