BGE Python API

Use 'const char *' rather then the C++ 'STR_String' type for the attribute identifier of python attributes.

Each attribute and method access from python was allocating and freeing the string.
A simple test with getting an attribute a loop shows this speeds up attribute lookups a bit over 2x.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_ParentActuator.cpp b/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_ParentActuator.cpp
index c7ac52e571a..5a908186235 100644
--- a/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_ParentActuator.cpp
+++ b/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_ParentActuator.cpp
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ PyMethodDef KX_ParentActuator::Methods[] = {
 	{NULL,NULL} //Sentinel
 };
 
-PyObject* KX_ParentActuator::_getattr(const STR_String& attr) {	
+PyObject* KX_ParentActuator::_getattr(const char *attr) {	
 	
-	if (attr == "object") {
+	if (!strcmp(attr, "object")) {
 		if (!m_ob)	Py_RETURN_NONE;
 		else		return m_ob->AddRef();
 	}
@@ -182,9 +182,9 @@ PyObject* KX_ParentActuator::_getattr(const STR_String& attr) {
 	_getattr_up(SCA_IActuator);
 }
 
-int KX_ParentActuator::_setattr(const STR_String& attr, PyObject* value) {
+int KX_ParentActuator::_setattr(const char *attr, PyObject* value) {
 	
-	if (attr == "object") {
+	if (!strcmp(attr, "object")) {
 		KX_GameObject *gameobj;
 		
 		if (!ConvertPythonToGameObject(value, &gameobj, true))