HyperScript 1.7.11

The limit on how long a loop may run is now a setting, and there is a ready-made speed test.

Added

• loop-limit in config.yml (100000 by default, from 1000 to 50000000). It is the most rounds loop N times accepts, and how often a while loop may go round without a wait before it is stopped. It used to be fixed at 100000. The message when a loop is refused now names the setting. A config.yml from an older version has no such line and keeps 100000.
• SpeedTest.hs, a ready-made script: /speedtest [rounds] times twelve kinds of work, from adding to a local variable up to asking the world for a block, and says for each how long it took and how many it would do in a second. That makes 39 scripts.

First speed numbers from a live server

Measured on Paper 26.2 with a one-line loop: 100,000 rounds of add 1 to _k in 1 to 3 milliseconds once warmed up (10 ms the first time), which is about fifty million simple steps a second. A server tick is 50 ms.

That is the cheapest thing a script can do. Lines that ask the server for something cost more, and the speed test shows how much.