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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: Robert Steely <robsteely at nc dot rr dot com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:14:44 -0400
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 04:50  PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

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."

Then we can do productive things like work out exactly what those circumstances are (considering OS, Carbon/Classic, version of RB, etc.), and whether we at RS can do anything to speed it up, rather than spending time clarifying that you really can choose when to > yield.

That seems reasonable.

While on the subject of yielding, there's something I've always wondered about ever since Mac OS X came out. Does RB still yield time to external processes (programs other than our own) when running on Mac OS X. With preemptive multitasking, I would think that this would no longer be required (or desired). If it still doing so, why?

Bob


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