NWNX2 Developers: Hardcoded addresses vs. pattern searches?

[Zebranky]

How do the NWNX2 devs in the crowd feel about hardcoded addresses as opposed to searching memory for patterns? I'm just curious to get a community consensus on this.
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[virusman]

Usually I use absolute addresses in experimental plugins and signatures in stable plugins. With the final patch the signatures aren't a necessity anymore.

[acaos]

I agree with Virusman and do the same here.

Acaos

[Mikel of Avalon]

With the final patch is out - what would the advantage to change all to absolute addresses? A big speedup for nwnx2?
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[Zebranky]

Not really; there's very little point in changing existing code to use addresses. It's easier for developing new things, though, as creating and checking a pattern takes more time than just finding the right address. For something with a lot of addresses (read: acaos's plugins ) it really adds up.

I won't worry TOO much about creating patterns for everything, then. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't an unspoken law about it.
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Win32 SVN builds: http://www.mercuric.net/nwn/nwnx/

<Fluffy-Kooshy> NWNx plugin is to this as nuclear warheads are to getting rid of fire ants.

<ThriWork> whenever I hear nwn extender, I think what does NWN need a penis extender for?