Awake() and Start()

Question

I see that we can initialize Variable in Awake() or Start() and Awake() will be called before Start().

When shou

Answer 1

There's not much difference in the performance. But I can tell you a difference between them.

Take a simple example. Say if you want to print "HELLO" in console even if you have not activated the script in inspector, using Awake() function, you can print it in the console. But if you had written the same thing in Start() function and the script wasn't activated, you don't get any output in the console. That's the difference.

Codes in Start() function get executed only if the script is activated while, codes in Awake() function get executed even if the script is not activated. Try it !