Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!genius From: genius@cs.mcgill.ca (Michel NGUYEN) Subject: Re: Amiga basher Message-ID: <1991Jun16.062152.17153@cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada References: <1991Jun13.042836.8112@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Jun13.065150.3529@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Jun16.040300.17455@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 91 06:21:52 GMT >> Do you use it a lot?? I know I could not live without multitasking, but >> very often (when I do serious work), I want my computations to take >> exactly 20 minutes and not 30-40 minutes because I am playing some >> chess or tetris games in another window. >So run chess at -1 priority and it will *never* chew up any CPU time when your >application is ready to run. You will have a few extra context switches... >maybe 10-20 per second. I've run processes that required 1200 context switches >per second on a 1000 and watched Perfmeter drop by about 7%, so 10-20 aren't >going to be noticed. So, correct me if I'm wrong here, if you set the chess (or/and all the other apps except the *serious* computation prg) at priority -1, how long do you have to wait before the chess game makes its move or the tetris block makes 1 move down? ...not until the 20 minutes computations is finished? Or do you have to take a coffee between each move (for tetris)? So what's the point? >> As I said, go look around. Check out the softwares and hardwares of the other >> systems (especially the Mac and PeeCee) NOW on the market. You will >> be surprised. >I have. Gorgeous graphics. But they're about as responsive as a deaf cat. When >I want to switch to another window I want it *now*, not after every app on ^^^^^ Does the Chess prg set at priority -1 satisfy you? >the screen has been scheduled, cleaned up its damage list, done its >housekeeping, and so on. Tell me Peter, what have you seen? >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' . > 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" ************************************************************************** "L'Avocat du Diable" **************************************************************************