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A simple timer test that measures how long a wait statement takes and draws a histogram of the extra delay. Note: the extra delay is in part due to the time it takes to read the timer before and after the wait.
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ekecole, I don't understand your comment. There are two scratch interpreters, one written in java (for the web applets) and one written in Squeak. Canthiar was noticing the difference in the two implementations.
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*in response to a certain 'Canthiar' who will probably never read this* LOL! 'Squeak'? Tell me somebody caught that.
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I don't know whether the timer in the java implementation has bugs, or whether it is just a really slow implementation. From the behavior I have seen in some programs, I suspect bugs, but this tool is not adequate for determining that.
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OK this is all fancy talk! there's some internal software clock that is goofy in the way it times things / clock cycles for events? Foob
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very intersting... in squeak by displays were approximately bimodally distributed around 0.0025 (lots of variance) and 0.01 (a little variance), but in java I was shocked to see they were distributed around 0.06 and 0.21 (with no variance at all). This is a much longer delay
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It really shows a big difference between the timer in the Java version and the timer in the Squeak version.
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