ITGB game loop

Hi,

I'm trying to create a game loop and I'm running into performance troubles.

In my scenegraph I use the onUpdateScene call back and getSceneTime to record how long my frame took. Then I call an update on my game objects that are using time base logic.

// The scene's update this is where we'll get our elapsed time
function SceneGraph::onUpdateScene(%this)
{
// First get the current time we can restrict how often we update
%this.elapsedTime = %this.getSceneTime() - %this.startTime;

// Only update if we are above our lock time
if (%this.elapsedTime > $lockTime)
{

// Go through our list of stuff we want to update
for (%i = 0 ; %i < %this.updateObjList.getCount() ; %i++)
{
%this.updateObjList.getObject(%i).update(%this.elapsedTime);
}

// Update the scene time
%this.startTime = %this.getSceneTime();

}

}

Then when we want an object to use time based logic I just add it to the updateObjList and write an update function for it. The problem is I'm running into performance issues and I don't know if this game loop approach is just not a good idea.

Basically I have 35 objects in game and in each of the object's update function I have 6 addition , 3 multiplications, 3 divisions and 3 assignment operation. These are written in torque script. This will send my frame rate to less than 5 FPS. Now if I remove these math operation I can get about 30 FPS. Does anyone know if math operations are just that slow in torque script or does the game loop approach have a big performance hit with the engine?

Any thought or experience would be much appreciated