Sorry, my retraction of the bug report appears premature. It repeats with regularity now on my iMac, with current changesets and the B5 MacOS VM. The problem, as mentioned, is that events, after a bunch have backed up, tend to fire off at the rate of about 1 per second, which can only be heightened by, for example, pressing the shift key, or the like.

This problem or problems similar to this, tends to account for some sluggishness I have recently experienced in Morphic, where hitting a shift key tends to make things come "back to life."

Is anyone else experiencing these issues? I suggest running the script I posted at the beginning of this thread, opening a transcript and running a long sentence with overlapping keypresses. After a bit, the event listings slow down to less than one per second or so.

This is a real problem for real-time game I/O.

At 8:41 AM -0500 11/30/00, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:38:43 -0500 "Andrew C. Greenberg" werdna@mucow.com wrote:

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Running the following script in Morphic with a transcript open, I get some unexpected behavior.

Andrew,

I couldn't duplicate the problem, but there have been some things happening in this area, so I would ask:

• which VM are you using?
• what is the latest change set in your image?

Updated to current system and changeset -- all seems well.