Just how slow are blueprints?

[Zeustiak]

@Arlith;565502

I was doing some reading and came across a forum saying that blueprints was something like 10x slower than C++. How would that affect a full big rpg-like game?

Let’s assume I just made two Skryims with UE4; one was done in C++ and the other in Blueprints. Would the BP game be significantly slower than the C++ to the player/gamer? Would the player experience a lot of in-game lag as a result of using BPs? If so… what is the point of blueprints if it is so inefficient? Sorry, I don’t mean to offend, I’m just trying to understand.

Officially, it is said that blueprints is ~10x slower than C++. This isn’t really an issue with blueprint. Is an issue with all scripting languages. It is why it is important to have access to the source code besides core extensions.

Anyway, most games won’t be affected by it since generally you don’t bottleneck at the processor, but at the graphics card or memory.

If you are trying to do lots of math in a short period of time, or AI, then those are the kinds of areas that you would be better off in C++. Generally though you won’t notice the difference.