Using the behavior tree system I created (Previous Update), I have created an AI brain that lets fighter ships dog fight one another.

I've created several sub trees.

there are subtrees to evade.

subtrees to dogfight.

I ran into some performance issues during rapid state transitions in the behavior tree…

I created a behavior tree system that is defined completely within c++.  

AI entities have a brain which spins up a behavior tree.

The nodes in the behavior tree are heap allocated, which I believe does have some noticeable performance cost.

The reason for this was to easily use virtual methods a…