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MatthewDwyer
This is my first set of updates to botman
The goal was to have a smooth operational boot that presented data in it's interface in a way that made it easer to see what was going on.
By resolving errors, even if they weren't fatal reduced excess noise making it easer to tell when their is a real issue.
Performance issues and improvements to reduce code bloat due to repeated literals and to avoid large manual entry code dependencies which lead to errors inconsistencies and missed actions.
Hmm.. I'm not sure if you are a patch behind but I see lines removed or changed that should not be. Also do not use math.random. If you want random numbers, use MySQL like I'm doing. Lua's random number generator is rubbish at randomness.
Your commit is definitely a version behind. I'm seeing lots of reverted changes and other large missing chunks of code that need to be there.
Also I used to have a lot more debug info written to Mudlet windows and that slowed the bot down too much. I removed 90% of them, especially in core areas like matchall.lua and gmsg_functions.lua. The bot sped up far beyond expectations. You can have debug output but you definitely don't want it there all the time. That is why I added the debug = false/true lines.
I have downloaded your master from your fork and I will compare it to mine so I can merge some lines. I can't just merge it all as is because of the version discrepancy, plus the latest bot has changed significantly again (not published yet).