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This probably should be on a "discussion" section, but there isn't one for this repo, so I'm posting my question here.

I'm intrigued by this plugin - it seems to be specially useful on resource-starved servers, which is my case. But then I'm wondering a few things, which stems from the fact that the README on the repo's root provides little information other than what it does and its benefits:

• Should it be considered safe? The benefits are quite clear, but are there any trade-offs?
• If it's safe, why hasn't it been submitted to TShock devs to be merged into the core proper?

When using the Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB, 64-bit RPI OS, mono v6.12) overclocked at 2GHz, using Tiled plugin (1d provider) brought the memory usage down from ~1.5 GB to <1 GB on a large world. However, mobs were rubber banding and server time is consistently behind client time by 1 hour game time (measured with /time and gold clock gadget).

Without the Tiled plugin, mob movement was fine and server time was at most 15 minutes behind client time in the most CPU-intensive events like Frost Moon.

I am now also encountering the same problem with Tiled when using e2-micro VM (free tier) on Google Cloud Platform, having an always free terraria server for a small group of friends would be really nice. Switching to e2-small VM (which has 2x more compute than e2-micro) also fixed the rubberbanding and time lag issue.

Is there any reason why Tiled can decrease performance even though it should increase it?

This is amazing!

But unfortunately there is an incompatibility with the CoderCow Protector (PluginCommonLibrary) even using 2D provider.

Would there be a possibility of a compatible version?

I am hosting my Terraria server on a Raspberry Pi 4B. Can you explain this plugin? How exactly will this tile affect my server? I saw that it takes less instructions than Heap in TShock, but what exactly does it affect when a player is in game?

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