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Looking at the time used info, how to tell if my mod is "going overboard"?

Each frame should take 16.667 MS, so presumably my time should be <<16.667, but is 2 ms acceptable? 0.5ms?
Obviously the lower the better, but I'm trying to get an idea of how much is acceptable (no noticeable lag on incurred by mod).

I don't know of a hard and fast metric for this, but I figure that as long as you're comfortably less time_used than the YARM mod (when it is monitoring a half dozen sites or so), then you should be fine. It's an arbotrary reference point, I know, but YARM is a popular & useful mod with a time_used that is higher than many mods, but still fine for game performance.

That's a good starting point, thanks.
Do you have a ballpark for how much it uses, if I'm too lazy to download it and see for myself?

IIRC it idles around 0.1 with peaks of up to 0.25 or so. But it could be different in your environment so I do recommend installing it and running both it and your mod together to get a direct comparison.