[Wintermute0110]

Thanks a ton! I haven’t messed around with AML much yet but I’m blown away with how fast AEL is at handling large data sets. From what you’ve said it sounds like a lot of that speed is just being smart with how you address the data. I am still new to a lot of this but you’ve given me a ton to look into. Thanks!

AEL can handle easily libraries with 50k games, for example in my setup I have a complete No intro set which is about 40k games over 30 launchers. AML deals with a library of 40k mame machines plus 120k games on the software lists. Both add-ons are very similar technically but AML is a bit more optimised because I spend some time with it in 2020 with the Python 3 conversion. Finally, it will be worth having a look at IAGL, Zach spent quite some time working on optimizing the addon and I'm sure the performance of the new version is great.