Checking the Milliseconds

[Tore Nilsen]

It averages around 3850 and 3900 every time I try. However, when I try to run the test 10000 times the average goes down to just above 3600.
BigSur on Xeon W 3GHz.

Best regards 
Tore Nilsen

> 7. apr. 2021 kl. 18:03 skrev Tom Glod via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Hey peeps,
> 
> I wanted to measure how many times the LC engine can check the milliseconds
> count during each millisecond that passes.
> 
> The results really surprised me, I thought it would be less, but I don't
> know why really.
> 
> Anyone want to take a guess?
> 
> What is strange about my results, is that every few milliseconds the amount
> of millisecond queries that occurs ...... doubles.
> 
> Why does this happen I wonder?
> 
> Can someone double check if that happens on your CPU?  I'm on WIndows 10 on
> an i5 4570.
> 
> Here is the code.
> --------------------------------------
> 
> local last_known_millisecond
> local queries = 0
> local report
> 
> on mouseUp
>   lock screen
>   put empty into report
>   local x
>   repeat 1000 times
>      add 1 to x
>      put 0 into queries
>      put the milliseconds into last_known_millisecond
>      repeat forever
>         add 1 to queries
>         if the milliseconds = last_known_millisecond  then
>            next repeat
>         else
>            exit repeat
>         end if
>      end repeat
>      put queries into line x of report
>   end repeat
>   unlock screen
>   put report
> end mouseUp
> 
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