Heya

First I want to say that, before creating ATT I was a MM user too. I even contributed some code fragments to MM back then. I used to be leader of 3-4 trade guilds and member of up to 15 guilds across multiple accounts. With time MM became more unusable for me, as it couldn't handle all the data without severe performance issues and client crashes. That was the point, I decided to write a new addon with the main focus on performance.

Yes, on the surface it looks similar to MM. The simple reason for this is that ESO only provides a very limited set of ui elements which are used throughout many different addons. So a similar look pretty much can't be avoided without creating all the images, bitmaps and textures yourself. But behind the surface ATT does things different.

As I said, performance was and is the main focus of the addon. There are many ways to improve things speed wise. You just have to take the time and do a LOT OF testing and time measuring.

Some examples
- Don't just store data in a table as you like. Find a data structure that can be read fast, even if writing to it may be slow
- Don't resort a table after inserting an element. Presort table data. This makes inserting elements faster.
- Comparing strings is faster when you limit the alphabet for the comparison algorithm
- Some API calls are VERY slow. Identify and try to avoid calling them too often
- Creating ui elements is slow. Better reuse than recycle them
- Memory allocation is slow. Try to do it once and keep it to a minimum once the addon is running
- Division is slow. Try to avoid it where you can
- It also helps to understand how LUA works behind the scenes. It's written in C and open source. So a look may be worth it.

Note that most of these points do only become relevant, when dealing with large sets of data, as ATT does.

I could probably list some more points. But I think that's enough to make clear, that I put much more thoughs in this addon, as it might seem.


Now something different:
Aldanga, you're doing a great job. Thank you very much. Keep it going!