Wait vs. Timer

[No_exit]

Hey I have been doing some testing to see if Waits are reliable compared to timers and ...
Waits and Timers seem to be equally reliable (I'm not talking about 32 ticks/second timers here though).

To my big amazement the following 2 scripts kept displaying the UI message synchronized even tho the "Wait" trigger chokes my pc for about 0.2 seconds every time it runs.

Wait trigger:

• Events
  • Game - Map initialization
  • Local Variables
    • i = 0 <Integer>
    • j = 0 <Integer>
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • General - Repeat (Actions) forever
      • Actions
        • Variable - Modify i: + 1
        • General - Wait 0.5 Game Time seconds
        • UI - Display ("Waits: " + (Text(i))) for (All players) to Chat area
        • General - For each integer j from 1 to 500 with increment 1, do (Actions)
          • Actions
            • Unit - Create 1 Marine for player 1 at Start Location 001 using default facing (No Options)
            • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game

Timer triggers:

• Normal Timer
  • Events
    • Game - Map initialization
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Timer - Start SomeTimer as a Repeating timer that will expire in 0.5 Game Time seconds

• Timer End
  • Events
    • Timer - SomeTimer expires
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Variable - Modify TimerCount: + 1
    • UI - Display ("Global Timer:" + (Text(TimerCount))) for (All players) to Chat area

Your thoughts / experiments?

Edit: w00t 100th post \o/

 

[Cookiemaster]

If only it could be tested in multiplayer.

But for your test results; it's no suprise that your pc chokes when you create and remove 500 units at once.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

See the discussion here:
http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=149544