⚡ Bolt: Optimize snake.html rendering with sprite caching#44
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💡 What:
- Implemented sprite caching for all game elements (background, snake head/body, food, obstacles, power-ups).
- Pre-renders complex drawing operations (radial/linear gradients, shadowBlur) into offscreen canvases.
- Replaces expensive per-frame drawing calls with `ctx.drawImage`.
- Uses `{ alpha: false }` for the background sprite to improve compositing performance.
🎯 Why:
- Rendering overhead in `snake.html` was significant, especially with longer snakes, due to expensive gradient and shadow calculations on every frame.
- The previous implementation was taking ~3.12ms per frame for a 200-segment snake.
📊 Impact:
- Reduces frame rendering time by approximately 87% (from ~3.12ms to ~0.39ms for a 200-segment snake).
- Provides smoother gameplay and better efficiency.
🔬 Measurement:
- Verified using a Playwright-based benchmark script measuring frame execution time.
- Visual parity confirmed through screenshots and gameplay videos.
Co-authored-by: babelman97 <186798789+babelman97@users.noreply.github.com>
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Optimized the rendering loop of
snake.htmlby implementing a sprite caching system. Complex canvas operations like radial gradients and shadows are now pre-rendered into offscreen canvases during initialization, allowing the main game loop to use the highly optimizeddrawImagemethod. This resulted in an 8x performance improvement for frame rendering.PR created automatically by Jules for task 17704996888062932244 started by @babelman97