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Re: fast, smooth updates

To: REALbasic Games <realbasic-games at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: fast, smooth updates
From: Frank C <pox at planetquake dot com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:27:07 -0400
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 04:50  PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

At 4:14 PM -0400 7/23/03, Frank C wrote:

To tell you the truth, we've argued this point to death and I'm at the point were I could care less where the problem lies. If you guys can fix the issue, great, if you can't fix it, or won't to acknowledge that it _is_ an issue, just say so and I'll move on.

But you keep coming back later and saying things which are, at best, misleading, like: "in C you have total control, so you can pick and chose what to deal with and what to ignore, and how often to yield to background tasks. In RB, you're a slave to the runtime." This clearly implies that you can't choose how often to yield to background tasks. Perhaps you understand that that's not true, and didn't mean to imply it, but a new user could easily be fooled.

Yes I can see that "how often" may be misleading...

Instead, let's agree on something like this: "In RB, you can choose how often to yield, but when you do yield it seems to take longer than it should, at least under some circumstances."

OK, Agreed. That has always been my point (I just kept calling it sleep/wait time). I apologize if I didn't make that clear earlier, but hopefully it is now.

Frank.


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