Server Script performance testing

kalEd · 2021-03-08, 10:02 AM

How can I detect how fast a function is running using gettickcount? If anyone can give me an example, or if you know another method.

Radical · 2021-03-08, 11:26 AM

PHP Code:
public OnPlayerConnect(playerid)
{
    new count = GetTickCount();
    //Rest of OnPlayerConnect
    printf("Time taken to execute OnPlayerConnect: %d", GetTickCount() - count);
    return 1;
} 

Virsenas · 2021-03-08, 12:35 PM

You just get the tick count at the start of your code and at the end where it is supposed to stop.

Code:
new tickcountstart,tickcountend;

tickcountstart=GetTickCount();

printf("Start: %d",tickcountstart);

CreateDynamicObject(...);

CreateDynamicObject(...);

CreateDynamicObject(...);

CreateDynamicObject(...);

CreateDynamicObject(...);

tickcountend=GetTickCount();

printf("End: %d",tickcountend);

printf("Difference: %d - %d = %d",tickcountend, tickcountstart, tickcountend-tickcountstart);

kalEd · 2021-03-08, 01:30 PM

thanks

Kwarde · 2021-03-08, 07:04 PM

You also may want to read this (and use y_profiling): https://github.com/pawn-lang/YSI-Includes/blob/5.x/YSI_Core/y_profiling/features.md

**Y_Less** · 2021-03-08, 07:59 PM

Using GetTickCount is not the right way to do this at all. It only tells you how long a single piece of code might take to run (and very very very inaccurately). It won't tell you which parts are actually slow, nor which parts are run a lot. You need the profiler plugin.