llResetScript... efficient or not?

I wrote a particle script that emits 1 particle at random intervals (between 1 and 2 seconds). To accomplish this, I'm generating a random float every time the script is reset. After generating my particle, I reset the script. Is this a bad way to accomplish this, the resetting of the script every time? I'm concerned about creating too much lag.

Thanks for any help!

It's probably not enough to be significant at that rate, but I'm sure it's more efficient to simply call a function on timeout rather than reset the script.

If you plan to rez hordes of them, efficiency becomes more important.

It's a trivial script change, though, so why not do it right?

Being a neophyte LSL scripter, I am not sure how to check for "timeout" of a script. Would it be something along the lines of the following?:

//pseudo-code
on_timeout(int parm)
{
getNewTimeValue();
}

Try this..

   float timeout = 2.0;
   
   default
   {
   	state_entry()
   	{
   		llSetTimerEvent(timeout);
   	}
   	timer()
   	{
 			 //INSERT PARTICLE STUFF HERE
   	}
   }
   

Thanks! Now I see what Lear Cale was talking about. I'll make the necessary changes to my code now. Thanks, again, to you both!

Since you want the interval to be random, you'd generate a new random number from 1..2 and pass that to llSetTimerEvent() in the timer() handler.