Does setting position to platformer everytick slow down CPU?

Not a how to, but just a simple question.

I seem to enjoy setting a ton of sprites to my platformers location every tick for various reasons, but I'm not sure if it slows down the game on other computers or mobile.

Example: I like having a weapon, hat, gun, particles etc.... all on my platformer for ever tick.. would this every become an issue?

Interested in this question too. Thanks for asking.

Same here.

The golden rule: measure it. If you can't measure a difference, no. If you can, yes.

Wouldn't it be less intensive to just pin them?

when you say "platformer" you mean "player" or "player character"?

eliasfrost It's not precisely the same thing? From my experience, pinning seems to result in some dithering/jagging. This is very notable if you have one visible sprite pinned to another, as in

It also occurs in my current game, where the edge detector for an NPC is pinned, resulting in some erratic movement. Thankfully, I like that bit of semi-randomness.

It's an issue that has to do with pixel rounding, the .capx that was provided in the thread you linked had pixel rounding on, which disallow objects to be drawn between pixels hence why it stutters. Toggle pixel rounding off and the problem is fixed.

I used the .capx in your mention and did some quick monitoring with pinning vs positioning every tick. Pinning the object resulted in a cpu usage of 1-3% while positioning every tick gave me a stable 4%, sometimes 5%.