Colludium
Unfortunately, even if the window and layout dimensions are identical (which means C2 only creates a single cell, https://www.scirra.com/blog/ashley/6/collision-cell-optimisation-in-r155), I still see the same performance degradation with the collision_test_capx sample.
Oddly, I've never run into this issue even with thousands of objects in a level with "On Collision" because I have a hibernation system that periodically puts objects that are too far away from the player into a "suspended state". Then, I have upper-level picking conditions filter only active objects before the "On Collision" subevent.
This is in contrast to C2 best practices: (quote from 
Ashley)
[quote:2iv7jitu]Make sure collision conditions are the first condition in the top-level event. When no objects are picked, the collision conditions can make efficient use of collision cells to reduce the number of checks made, ensuring performance is good in all circumstances.
If Is overlapping (or On collision) comes after another condition which has picked certain instances, it can no longer use collision cells ... If a prior condition picked a large number of instances, it must brute-force collision checks again.
I agree with what everyone has said so far, I'd love to get some official feedback about this.
hi
what does mean this "Make sure collision conditions are the first condition in the top-level event" ?
and as ashley say "is overlape=cell collisions (new method)" and "on collisions=brute force (old method)
so i think we should use is overlapping method for betterperformance