I can confirm that.  My Windows NT Pentium II goes straight to 89% CPU as
soon as I go into Play With Me 7.  

I love that mouse wheel support though!!

Well done.

Mike

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	David Farber [SMTP:dfarber at numenor.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, 22 April 1999 3:30 PM
	To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
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	Subject:	Squeak-Alice RE: Squeak 2.4 for Windows


	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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