Triggers VS Conditionals, which should I use for performance's sake?

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- - Joined 20 Jul, 2015
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Say I want the player to duck using the down key.

Which is more taxing on the processor:

"On key pressed" and "On key released"

Or

"Key down is held" and "Else" or "Key isn't held down".

Anyone have any insight?
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- dop2000
- - Joined 26 May, 2016
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It's not really a matter of performance, these events are different. "On key pressed" is triggered once. "Is key down" is triggered every tick, about 60 times per second, while the key is down.

Therefore, "Is key down" may be worse for performance if you have lots of actions in this event.