Using profiling to inform coding decisions; a real life example.  

To start off, I added the ability for ships to respawn. Giving some forgiveness if the player dies.

That works by adding a spawn component to the entity that needs to respawn fighter ships.

When respawning, you need to know how lo…

For that, you probably have to read the documentation for that table and/or file format yourself. I doubt anyone here would know that without doing the same.