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From: hadeishi@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (mitsuharu hadeishi)
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Subject: Re: Darn non-multitasking IFF viewers
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 10:46:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 10:46:19 1987
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In article <8706090134.AA03008@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
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>Ok, I'm upset.  I just went through three, count them, THREE IFF viewers.
>ALL of them hogged processor time while displaying the picture.  This is
>hard to do with the Amiga.  They must have really worked at it!!

	I doubt the fault lies in the EA routines; the IFF routines
merely allocate a bitmap and load the picture into it, they don't
display the image.  It is up to the IFF client to display the image
and wait for some input before exiting.  It's probably just a case of somebody
busy-waiting for input.-