Godot Version
Godot 4.4.1
Context
I’m developing a small software. I make no use of ticked methods (_process() and _physics_process()). It mainly rely on signals.
In addition to the main window, I have a few Dialog instances in my software : a Window, a AcceptDialog and a FileDialog. For all of these windows, they only show up when clicking some menu or button.
I also have 2 control nodes covering the entire window. They are used as splashscreen at startup, and as a small multi-page tutorial. They sort of act as window, in the sense they cover the screen. But everything else is still present under it.
Content of the windows and controls :
- Window : a few panels, containing each a few label
- AcceptDialog : a label and a button
- FileDialog : just a basic FileDialog
- Control #1 : a few labels and a 256 pixels png image
- Control #2 : a 5-page tutorial, each page contains a few labels and some other elements (256 pixels image, Tree with 10 elements, …)
They all have a 512 pixels image in background.
For responsivity sake, all of these windows or controls are set to visible = false so that they are ready to use at any time, just hidden when not used.
Question
My question is : how bad is it for performances to have all of that present at any time with visibilty set to false ? Should it be unnoticeable for a standard consumer-level PC ? Or is it bad practice, and everything that only shows up momentarily should be created and deleted just during the time it is used ?