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I need more power captain.

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Subject: I need more power captain.
From: Sam Rowlands <sam at scriptsoftware dot com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:13:54 +0100
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Hey Guys,
How do I give my application more CPU time?

I have found that when my application/game is running the most CPU I can obtain is 51% and this gives me a frame rate of 24 when its full screen (1280*864 on a PBG4 1.5Ghz). Window Manager steals 15% but I think this because I am trying to redraw the contents a lot. I doubled my frame rate when I started drawing directly to the window background instead of drawing to an image and then the Window background. Albeit I know this will produce ugly results on Windows atm. My Windows Box is non-functional at the moment (another story) so I am focusing on the Mac Version until I can get it working again (again).

Which is technically faster, using a constant loop in a method or using a thread of a priority 10. The only reason I ask is because the constant loop appears faster but there might be something I am doing wrong.

I am sure that there is a lot I code to speed up my code here and there, but it does look a wee bit disappointing at the moment that I can only get 24 frames on a 1.5 Ghz.

Mahalo & Aloha,

Sam Rowlands

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