Waits...

[BradPittlord]

So its a known thing that waits are bad,



Therefore players are advised to use timers or periodic time

So why hasn't blizzard released a patch to fix waits yet?

 

[Razorclaw_X]

That really depends on what you're using the Waits for.

 

[BradPittlord]

True, but still every wait takes an additional.10 - .20 seconds.

Also waits still countdown even when "waiting for players" which I guess there could be some instances where that could be useful.

 

[Ceday]

My opinion is:
1- Multiplayer delay(problem that wait takes longer time in multiplayer) can not be fixed because waits need to synchronized.
2- Continuing countdown on "waiting for players" can be a bug or feature I guess.
3- I believe its single player performance can be improved, and I really don't know why it could not run faster(eg 0.01 seconds) in single player.

I suppose a timer is already synchronized by nature. A timer object is created on each player's game, each player runs same game and timer increases with each game tick.

 

[The_Silent]

Bribe released a fix I think.
[Lua] Perfect PolledWait (GUI-friendly)

 

[Ceday]

Bribe released a fix I think.
[Lua] Perfect PolledWait (GUI-friendly)

I don't think that preserves event responses, so not totally the same thing. Its just a wrapper that uses timers to perform actual waiting.

 

[BradPittlord]

Hmm looks pretty useful tho, nice
Hard to deal with timers in GUI