lurking signals in EventSensor

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jul 7 18:11:46 UTC 2003


Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> John M McIntosh <johnmci at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> > >  "Lex Spoon" <lex at c...> wrote
> > > I had the impression that John was seeing actual laggy *behavior*, not
> > > just a lot of signals to the semaphore. If there was no observable
> > > behavior (short of someone prodding with tracing tools :)) then never
> > > mind me.
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, what I've seen on the  mac was you moved upwards, the cursor would  
> > bog down in the stretch area, and you'd continue, and lose the cursor,  
> > resulting in the cursor bouncing off the top of the mac menu bar as  
> > you've disconnected cursor movement with hand feedback.
> Same thing on Acorn except happens in all directions.
> 

I don't see it on Unix.  3.6 image and a pretty current VM.   Lex



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