Special Thanks to The Reverend for help with the script.

With talk of TWGS speeds and comm program speeds, and BBS front ends etc etc, I wanted to deal with fact. My tests involved me, from work, running a ZOC script on the Chicken Coop TWGS, logged in through the BBS, the normal way all the users connect, with 10 or 12 users on the TWGS playing like they do regularly. So that others may reproduce my test, I was in a Colt like ship (250 holds) no planet scanner. In a sector with a SBB port which was selling over 50k ORE, and only 1 planet. My test was to run the script in Exhibit 3. Keep in mind, my ping times from work to my BBS are listed in Exhibit 2. And the results, in seconds, are in Exhibit 1. Now, to get the Display ON result, uncomment the "call zocsuppressoutput 1" line by making it "/* call zocsuppressoutput 1 */" instead.

TWGS settings:
Max Commands/Cycle = 20
Move delay =1/4 though that did not come into play in these tests.
If anyone can think of any other settings that would have a bearing on performance, please let me know so I can post them.

I have ICQ'd Mad Hatter, Kemper, and Res to let them know I was interested in putting together a unified TWGS Benchmark battery of tests. That was just earlier today, so I still hope to hear from them later. I would be interested to see other sysops run similar tests and post their results. I recognize this one single script is not going to test everything, but its a start, hopefully we can build on as a community.

Ex 1
Display ON=61.628000
Display OFF=60.087000

Ex 2
C:\>ping bbs.bawk.org -n 10

Pinging bbs.bawk.org [209.225.157.234] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=320ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244

C:\>ping bbs.bawk.org -n 10

Pinging bbs.bawk.org [209.225.157.234] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=244
Reply from 209.225.157.234: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=244

C:\>

Ex 3
/* REXX */

call zoctimeout 600
call zocsuppressoutput 1
call time "R"
DO 200
call zocsend "pt^M^Mltnl1^Mq"
END
call zocsend "@"
call zocwait "Average Interval"
elapsed=time("E")
call zocsuppressoutput 0
call zocwriteln elapsed
exit


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