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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: profiling and speeding up Mac code
Message-ID: <23166@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 15 Feb 91 07:13:48 GMT
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <2196.27B7FD50@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) writes:
>Another fine bottleneck is overuse of the "spinning beachball"
>ICON. If you let that thing turn every so many widgets, the faster the CPU,
>the proportionately greater the overhead to use it.

I don't understand. If you crank the beachball every time you've done 100th
of the work, and it takes a 1000th of the total CPU time each time you
crank it, how does speeding up the CPU change these ratios?
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