Checking the Milliseconds

[Tom Glod]

Hmmm.... I averaged about 3500..... but every so often ....7000+.....

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 12:17 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Here's the first few from LC 9.6.1 Win 10 Pro VM SSD
>
> 1473
> 3326
> 3397
> 3155
> 2442
> 3234
> 2292
> 3349
> 3380
> 3275
> 3259
> 3498
> 3300
> 3634
> 3462
> 3228
> 3896
> 3762
> 3197
> 3186
> 2188
> 1461
> 2716
> 3358
> 2940
> 2886
> 2614
> 2264
> 3038
> 3322
> 3305
> 3372
> 3395
> 3418
> 2579
>
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Tom Glod via use-livecode
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2021 12:03 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Cc: Tom Glod
> Subject: Checking the Milliseconds
>
> 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
>
> --
> Tom Glod
> Founder & Developer
> MakeShyft R.D.A (www.makeshyft.com)
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Tom Glod
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