Potential speed improvement?

[Echo]

I saw this change to speedup the mapgen: https://github.com/celeron55/minetest/c ... 9c6e6b31ac
It replaced the slow pow function.

Then I stumpled upon this:
https://github.com/jordan4ibanez/minete ... c50bb52757
Ok, it's jordan4ibanez's fork, but it's the same in celeron55's in camera.cpp:
There is usage of slow sin- and pow-function in the digging and bobbing animation. There are faster ways for the sin-function: lookup-tables, approximations, interpolations... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6091 ... alternatve

Is this worth to be optimized or is it fast enough because it's called only sporadically?

[OmniStudent]

Any speedup is nice, since there's soooo much use the processor for in this game!

[Mito551]

yes, please! will you do this?