Timer event fires irregurarly
I'm trying to create a simple performance logging function in my script tests. What I want to do is to set a timer that will call this logging function regularly during the entire program run, and eac...
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Hi,
I don't know TC internal implementations, so it is my guess, but I think that the case is in the fact that Timer is a functionality implemented on top of the regular script engine. (BTW, TC uses JScript.dll provided by the OS, so there is no something special here.) Considering that it is quite possible that all communication between TC, OS, script engine and tested application is done via COM calls (whether local or remote (in the process intercommunication terms), it is expected for me that it takes much more time to generate and process a timer event in the scripting language than in the native code produced by the regular language.
I don't know TC internal implementations, so it is my guess, but I think that the case is in the fact that Timer is a functionality implemented on top of the regular script engine. (BTW, TC uses JScript.dll provided by the OS, so there is no something special here.) Considering that it is quite possible that all communication between TC, OS, script engine and tested application is done via COM calls (whether local or remote (in the process intercommunication terms), it is expected for me that it takes much more time to generate and process a timer event in the scripting language than in the native code produced by the regular language.
