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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Multi-finder
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Date: 2 Nov 89 07:49:35 GMT
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In article <3654@ur-cc.UUCP> tonyg@cvs.rochester.edu (Tony Giaccone) writes:
>My counter doesn't count.

The assembly code to increment a longInt is one instruction:
	Addq	#1,myVar
	rts
This is 6 bytes (2 for the instruction, 4 for the destination address, 2
for the return.)
If your time maanger task is in the system heap, it will run all the
time.