Concerning speedtests

[Richard Gaskin]

Wouter wrote:

> The speedtests that sometimes are proposed are "very" relative.
> Certainly in a preemptive multitasking environment with lots of
> processes running.
> Do a test on the speedtest, repeat a couple of times the following :
> 
> on mouseUp
> put the millisecs into zap1
> repeat 100000
> put 1 after x
> end repeat
> put the millisecs into zap2
> repeat 100000
> put 1 after y
> end repeat
> put the millisecs into zap3
> put zap2 - zap1 && zap3 - zap2
> end mouseUp

What you're testing is a very fast operation.  I found that if I increase
the number of iterations by one order of magnitude the variance drops
proportionately.

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