Performance

Embellish Chat processes chat messages with regular expressions, style actions, mention targeting, and optional notification packets. This benchmark is synthetic, so it should be read as a pressure test rather than a normal multiplayer workload.

Test Setup

Item	Value
Embellish Chat	3.4.0 (DEV)
Minecraft	1.21.11
World	Singleplayer, Superflat
CPU	13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1360P
Max RAM	4 GB
System	Windows 11
Config	Default

Scenario

The test ran for 1,000 ticks. Each tick processed up to 500 chat messages. Results are average processing time in milliseconds per tick.

Type	Length	Test String
Plain Text	81	Hello everyone! What are you all doing on the server today? I am mining diamonds.
Styling Only	94	**Trading now!** Check my [inv] and [end]. Selling the [Legendary Sword]<#00FFFF> cheap :fire:
Mention Only	75	@everyone Gather @here for the weekend boss raid! @team(red) get ready too.
Mixed	93	@team(blue) charge the boss! ~~No retreat~~ My [inv] is full of potions, yell :heart: if low.

Results

Message Type	50 msg/tick	100 msg/tick	300 msg/tick	500 msg/tick
Plain Text	0.27 ms	1.06 ms	3.77 ms	5.83 ms
Styling Only	0.90 ms	2.16 ms	6.93 ms	10.99 ms
Mention Only (ON)	3.06 ms	4.86 ms	9.83 ms	14.27 ms
Mention Only (OFF)	1.18 ms	3.03 ms	8.69 ms	13.00 ms
Mixed	1.28 ms	2.57 ms	7.06 ms	12.00 ms

Minecraft targets a 50 ms tick budget. In this benchmark, the heaviest default case is Mention Only (ON) at 14.27 ms while processing 500 messages in one tick.

How to read this chart

These numbers isolate Embellish Chat's message-processing work. Real servers also depend on player count, other mods, and network conditions.

Tuning Tips

Tip	Why it helps
Keep unused rule groups empty	Fewer regular expressions are checked for every message.
Check rule order	Rule order matters when multiple patterns match the same text.
Disable mention notifications if unneeded	Reduces overlay text and sound packet work.