Suppose that you want to benchmark a 3D game engine. What do you do? The common solution is: * Have a demo file to play * Play it on the benchmark machine * Count the time elapsed Next is a script to do this in Sylphis3D: import sylphis import pyui import mthread ## ## The function that does the measurement ## def bench(): mthread.sleep(0.1) # Sleep a little time to let things settle timer = sylphis.CTimer() # Generate a timer to count time startFrame = CEngine.getFrameCount()# Log the number of frames rendered by the engine at the start of the benchmark mthread.sleep(50.0) # Sleep for 50.0 seconds of game world time time = timer.getTime() # Read the real world time it took to render all the frames frames = float(CEngine.getFrameCount() - startFrame) # Calculate the number of frames the engine rendered print “Average FPS : %4.2f” % (frames / time) shutdown() # Shutdown the engine CClient.loadMap(‘maps/bench.cmap’) # Load the benchmark map pyui.deactivate() # Deactivate the GUI CEngine.setFPS(30.0) # Set the engine to generate a constant frames per game world second mthread.parallelize(bench) # Run bench() in parallel The script is named benchmark.py placed in the base folder and invoked by running like this(creating a shortcut is handy): sylphis.exe -exec benchmark The scripts loads and runs the map, and invokes a function that runs in parallel with the game engine, that will time the process for 50 second of game world time. Microthreads in action!!!