Originally Posted by sirinsidiator
Any chances you could add some functions for profiling to the API?
It would be enough if we had a function that gave us an updated time inside a function in order to allow us to write our own tools.
As far as I have seen all time functions only update between execution, so if I called GetGameTimeMilliseconds() twice with some heavy processing in between I would get the same value from both calls.
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GetFrameTimeMilliseconds() returns the same value during a single UI frame, yes.
GetGameTimeMilliseconds() returns actual time since the game was started, so it basically works for
measuring time spent within a function, but the results are not very consistent. They depend on thread scheduling (how much CPU time the Lua VM is given), how it struggles with memory allocations etc. If you want to evaluate whether func1 is more efficient than func2, you'll have to call them hundreds of thousands of times to get some usable averages.