Re: fast, smooth updates

[Frank C <pox at planetquake dot com>]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 02:16  AM, nickdabner at optusnet dot com dot au 
wrote:
> I thought as much. Sounds like some additional #pragmas may assist to 
> control
> RB behaviour in this manner. Certainly something non-malicious such as 
> "ignore
> mouse events" or "optimisefortightloop" where the specific needs could 
> be
> supported.
I'm all for anything that puts more control of the runtime event loop 
into the developers hands (variable wait time, forced updates, 
whatever...)
> Any idea if it would be possible to ignore backgroundtasks, but yield 
> or SMP other
> RB threads? Pigs might fly? Unsure of how things work when you get 
> that low in
> the system.
Not at the moment - ignoring background tasks in a threaded loop gives 
you the same results as a tight loop running in the main thread (fast 
loop, locked up GUI).
Frank.


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