Timers, Stepping, Co-routines and Riverdance in Squeak

Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) Jarvisb at timken.com
Wed Mar 22 17:20:05 UTC 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lex Spoon [SMTP:lex at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:02 AM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: Timers, Stepping, Co-routines and Riverdance in Squeak
> 
> It sounds like you are simply seeing problems in Squeak transmitting its
> screen to the video card.  Could you try the following and see how long
> it takes?
> 
> 	[ Display forceToScreen: (1 at 1 extent: Display extent) ] timeToRun
> 
> On my computer (Linux, K6-3/333, TNT2-Ultra), this takes over 100
> milliseconds.
> 
On my "experienced" 133 MHz Pentium this takes about 135 msecs.  Could be
more a matter of bus speed than CPU clock rate.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken






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