Comments on: Making the Timer more steady

By: Time Tracker, easy time tracking | Randomize Everything

Time Tracker, easy time tracking | Randomize Everything — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:20:18 +0000

[...] IDE and compiled it against the Adobe Air 1.5 runtime. Many thanks to Hans Van de Velde for his SteadyTimer class. The SteadyTimer class fixes the lagging problem of the AS3 Timer [...]

By: bnovc

bnovc — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:12:16 +0000

This does not work for timers that take less than a second or so.

Running at 1/3rd of a second intervals, it loses on average 9.2ms (over a few minute test).

Running at 1/20th of a second, it is basically useless. I’m getting 10ms between some executions and 100 between others.

I haven’t figured out a way around that yet, but I figured maybe you or a person reading this may know.

By: Hans Van de Velde

Hans Van de Velde — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:44:30 +0000

Ok thanks, I’ve updated the code with a getTimer() iso a Date object. In general, I try not to use global functions but if it’s better for performance then I’m a fan .

By: Keith Peters

Keith Peters — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:04:49 +0000

Looking at your implementation, I see one issue…

You are creating a new Date object on every tick. Waste of resources and leads to potential garbage collector slowdowns. You can do the same thing with getTimer() which returns the milliseconds since the SWF started running.

By: Keith Peters

Keith Peters — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:00:21 +0000

Yup…. 2 years ago.

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=910