Hello, I am new with dotnet-script and my goal is to make small API testing framework, which will take .csx files as pre-request and/or post-response scripts.

One of the main goals is to make this FW as fast as possible so that multiple scripts (in tens to hundreds) can be run in a reasonable amount of time. I have tried to run your CLI commands by using Process and it was quite slow for my needs (mean time around 880 ms). Therefore, I have changed approach and used Dotnet.Script.Core as NuGet and tried to run the script programatically.

My code looks like this so far:

var code = await File.ReadAllTextAsync(filename);

var stop = new Stopwatch();
var logFactory = LogHelper.CreateLogFactory("release");
ExecuteCodeCommandOptions options =
    new(code, Environment.CurrentDirectory, [], OptimizationLevel.Release, true, []);

stop.Start();
var ret = await new ExecuteCodeCommand(ScriptConsole.Default, logFactory).Execute<int>(options);
stop.Stop();

Unfortunately, when I did experiment with 100 runs, it went even worse, where execution of one basic-script.csx lasted around 1 550 ms.

// basic-script.csx
Console.WriteLine("Hello world");

Therefore, I would like to ask you, how can I run scripts in more optimalised way - if there is some configuration/options, that can be used, or if I should re-write my code completely? Maybe also, if there is possibility to pre-compile scripts somehow?