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When you have multiple chests full of Armor-type items, the game begins to lag noticeably.

Steps to reproduce:

• Load any save (tested both vanilla and modded) where you have several chests
• Activate the debug "show_time_used_percent" option and make a baseline measurement for comparison, paying special attention to the "Electric network" portion
• Either insert a bunch of armor-type items into the chests manually, or use a command like

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  /c game.local_player.selected.insert{name="heavy-armor", count = 1000}

• Do this for multiple chests, and check the Electric network time_used_percent again. It should have increased dramatically

Evidently something behind the scenes is flipping out when multiple stacks of armors are stored in chests. I tested with basic armor, heavy armor, and power armor, and they all caused lag.

Some illustrative screenshots -- note the "Electric network" numbers at bottom left increasing dramatically: Note that while I still maintained 60 UPS through this particular test, in some of my saved games the Electric network time_used_percent has reached as high as 21, which slowed me down to ~20 UPS and effectively killed performance.

Thanks for the report,

This will be fixed/optimized in 0.13
As large parts of the electric network code have changed