Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!omx!artech!stevex From: stevex@artech.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Gomf is CPU greedy! Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 15:32:46 GMT References: <223@taloa.unice.fr> <240@taloa.unice.fr> Organization: Artech Digital Entertainments, Inc. Lines: 26 In article <240@taloa.unice.fr> beust@taloa.unice.fr (Cedric Beust) writes: >In article , stevex@artech.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) writes: >: >: And I bet you used XOPER or some other thing that measures the dispatched >: counter that Exec keeps to figure out how busy the task is. >: >: I bet this is what GOMF is doing. I know it's what my programs are doing, >: and I don't see anything wrong with it - Complain to whoever wrote your CPU >: time measurer. > > Right. I didn't use Xoper but since then I've seen the figures vary > considerably from one measurer to the other. And anyway, there is > no ultimate way to measure the CPU time on the Amiga :-( Sure there is - start an interrupt and sample the ExecBase->ThisTask. I wonder what ThisTask points to when no task is currently "Running"? > I'll keep GOMF3 in a drawer and will take it out when necessary. > > BTW, Steve, do you plan to release a new version of VirusX? When I finish BBX, I'll get back into VirusX and do a new version, probably a rewrite, and by that time, probably 2.0-specific. -- ...Steve's Signature (when Steve's at work)...