Communication frequency vs Simulation Time for FMU

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Lets say we have a FMU which is getting inputs from Python and simulating at an interval of 0.001s. Does the FMI/FMU standard allow us to run the FMU multiple times for a same input (so Python provides the input at 0.01s interval and the FMU simulates that 10 times at each step)? Would that be faster since we have reduced the communication interface by 1/10th ?

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Christian Bertsch On

(For CS FMUs:) Updating the inputs only every 10th step can be seen as a special co-simualtion algorithm and is ok. Input variables keep their values until they they are newly set. This will only lead to a benefit in simulation speed, if the the internal calculation time (of a doStep) is small compared to the communication runtime.