Does adding "-> void" after functions improve GDScript speed?

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Just wondering if there is a speed boost to writing “-> void” at end of functions that don’t return anything?

I have a lot of code migrated from before static typing in gdscript and don’t want to add this everywhere if there isn’t a speed boost.

cheers!

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Apparently Yes.

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I’m not sure if I see what you’re seeing here…

Don’t find any mention of return void giving speed increase

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Scroll down to the very bottom: “Static types improve GDScript performance and more optimizations are planned for the future.”
But I still use dynamic typing for convenience. The speed boost is hardly recognizable in small projects.

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for void specifically it likely doesn’t allow for any extra optimization assuming you aren’t using the function in any expressions (which you shouldn’t be if it never returns a value) it should already be efficient without a return type on the function.

It does help by helping gdscript give you better errors and warnings to help notice when you’re expecting a return but it doesn’t return anything or the function shouldn’t return anything but in actuality it does

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