Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC Message-ID: <1364@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 7 Apr 90 00:00:24 GMT Lines: 23 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: > >The flip side of this is that for the programmer, a preemptive system >has one less thing you have to worry about doing right (allowing other >tasks to run often enough that users on an 8MHz 68000 won't complain), >so you can spend more time making the rest of the program better. But >the number of Mac programmers vs. the number of Amiga programmers >probably makes up for that. There is one more thing about non-preemtive multitasking though, that is worth noting. You will suffer a speed penalty by having to call a system routine in a loop that might otherwise not need to call a routine. An example might be during ray-tracing, matrix calculations, and so on. -larry -- Entomology bugs me. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+