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Convert globalstep + timer into minetest.after #179
Description
Some mods implement their tick logic using globalstep callbacks and a timer variable. This is heavy because the Lua VM must execute every callback for each server step, however if there is a timer (generally 1s) most of the time no actual code gets executed, just the timer variable {in,de}cremented.
Replacing this technique by minetest.after would reduce code duplication as well as increase performance since all the timers this function creates are handled by the same loop (in builtin/game/misc.lua#9), reducing the need to do context switches (locals) and allowing LuaJIT to streamline timer ticking to the maximum possible extent, thus increasing performance.