Profile Scripts dialog

The Script Profiler is accessible through the Context > Profile Scripts menu option. It runs the scripts in the template, using the current record, in order to verify the speed at which scripts in the Scripts pane execute. It helps greatly in troubleshooting performance issues caused by scripting (see also: Testing scripts).

When the dialog opens, the script profiler runs automatically, on 1000 instances of all the scripts by default (this can be changed through the Scripting Preferences).

The results are shown as follows (the first in the line is indicated as Total and represents the totals of all the scripts underneath, representing a good overview of the scripts performance in the template):

• Name: The name of the script being executed.
• Count: As the profiler runs, Count shows the current number of iterations that have been run. This goes up to the total number of set instances and then stops. Hover with your mouse to display a tooltip indicating in which sections the scripts has run (and in which contexts).
• Elapsed: Displays the total elapsed time since the start of the session. The table entries are initially sorted based on the values in this column, from high to low. Hovering the mouse over it will display a tooltip that indicates the breakdown of the execution time across different execution stages.
• Delta: Displays the estimated difference in performance between the current session and the previous session. Uses average values, so should still work if the previous session was stopped after a different number of iterations. Will be empty if no previous data is available. Hover with your mouse to display a tooltip indicating the breakdown of the execution time across different execution stages.