hmmmm...but i am seeing the processor pegged, just by going into Play With
Me 7. this is before i execute any commands, so Squeak-Alice shouldn't be
*doing* anything. so you are saying that as long as the camera is on, S-A is
rendering? interesting...

david

At 04:06 PM 4/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Farber [mailto:dfarber at numenor.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 1:40 PM
>> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>> Cc: recipient list not shown
>> Subject: Re: Squeak 2.4 for Windows
>> 
>> 
>[ ... ]
>
>> one question though; why does Alice want all of my processor? 
>> all i have to
>> do is enter the Play With Me 7 project and the processor gets 
>> pegged and
>> stays pegged. i noticed this in the Alice Netscape plugin 
>> too. this is on an
>> 200MHz NT sp4 machine.
>
>The reason is that both Alice and Squeak-Alice are trying to get the frame
>rate as high as possible, because the higher the frame rate the better and
>smoother the interpolated time-based animations look and the more responsive
>the world is.  As a result, Squeak-Alice never really has any idle time; at
>any given point it's either rendering or simulating.  It'll take every cycle
>your processor has and ask for more.  =)
>
>Andreas and I briefly discussed a mechanism to only re-render if something
>changes in the scene, but right now other things have higher priority on my
>TODO list.
>
>Jeff
>
>

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