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From: schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Animation
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Date: 17 Feb 91 08:20:38 GMT
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Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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Baudoin Raoult writes in a message to All
>  tmp := TickCount;  while tmp=Tickcount do { nothing } ;  CopyBits(.....)

Lawson English says:
>To make sure that you get the most accurate reading (and the longest time i
which to do your drawing) use GetTrapAddress to bypass the Trap Dispatcher a
jump directly to TickCount. Otherwise, you have 100+ CPU cycles of overhead

if you're going to go against guideline, why not use the global variable
Ticks. (unless you're running under A/UX)...
This seems safer to me.. (not to metion faster)
-Brent