Why is rs.Redraw() so slow?

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Hi,
@stevebaer and @pascal
I am running some tests for Holomark3 and wanted to clean up some code so I thought rs.Redraw() could be a nicer way to refresh the view than to use rs.EnableRedraw(False) and rs.EnableRedraw(True) but on a simple test where I add a spotlight and rotate it around (0,0,0) I get 2x the speed on the latter. Is that as expected, and if so why?

Here are my scores on a simple test with a cube with soft edges:

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test 1 - nothing : 3.59
test 2 - rs.EnableRedraw() : 3.83
test 3 - rs.Redraw() : 6.91

And here is the code:


import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import time

test1=True
test2=True
test3=True

if test1:
    light = rs.AddSpotLight( (30,0,0), 15, (50,0,10) )
    time1=time.time()
    for i in range(100):
        rs.RotateObject(light, (0,0,0), 3.6)
    time2=time.time()
    rs.DeleteObject(light)
    print "test 1 - nothing :",round(time2-time1,2)

if test2:
    light = rs.AddSpotLight( (30,0,0), 15, (50,0,10) )
    time1=time.time()
    for i in range(100):
        rs.EnableRedraw(False)
        rs.RotateObject(light, (0,0,0), 3.6)
        rs.Sleep(0)
        rs.EnableRedraw(True)
    time2=time.time()
    rs.DeleteObject(light)
    print "test 2 - rs.EnableRedraw() :",round(time2-time1,2)

if test3:
    light = rs.AddSpotLight( (30,0,0), 15, (50,0,10) )
    rs.EnableRedraw(False)
    time1=time.time()
    for i in range(100):
        rs.RotateObject(light, (0,0,0), 3.6)
        rs.Redraw()
    time2=time.time()
    rs.EnableRedraw(True)
    rs.DeleteObject(light)
    print "test 3 - rs.Redraw() :",round(time2-time1,2)