Optimizing

Heres a few tips to make your bot run a tiny bit faster, from most impact to least. The accuracy of the ordering is more of a guess, and depends on your usage.

Relative time

Nextcore uses your computer’s time to work with rate limits.

By default this is on, however your clock might not be syncronized.

Ubuntu

You can check if your clock is synchronized by running the following command:

timedatectl

If it is synchronized, it will show “System clock synchronized: yes” and “NTP service: running”

If the system clock is not synchronized but the ntp service is running you will have to wait a few minutes for it to sync.

To enable the ntp service run the following command:

sudo timedatectl set-ntp on

This will automatically sync the system clock every once in a while.

Arch

You can check if your clock is synchronized by running the following command:

timedatectl

If it is synchronized, it will show “System clock synchronized: yes” and “NTP service: running”

If the system clock is not synchronized but the ntp service is running you will have to wait a few minutes for it to sync.

To enable the ntp service run the following command:

sudo timedatectl set-ntp on

This will automatically sync the system clock every once in a while.

Windows

This can be turned on by going to Settings -> Time & language -> Date & time and turning on Set time automatically.

Switch to ORJSON

Nextcore handles quite a bit of JSON encoding and decoding. By default, nextcore uses the json module, which is quite a bit slower than orjson

You can switch to ORJSON by installing the speed package and setting it as the global aiohttp default

Pip

pip install "nextcore[speed]"

Poetry

poetry add "nextcore[speed]"

This will make nextcore.gateway use orjson, if it is installed.