From:	"Rafael García" <rafael AT geninfor DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	RE: pause() in idle programas
Date:	Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:23:44 +0100
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Gisle Vanem <gvanem AT eunet DOT no> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
00f301bf8cdb$8f29c8f0$293f8589 AT gv015029 DOT bgo DOT nera DOT no...
> Rafael García <rafael AT geninfor DOT com> said:
>
>
> >int getoption() {
> >   while (!kbhit()) {
> >      pause();                  // or delay(50)
> >      maintenance();
> >      }
> >   return getch();
> >   }
> >
> >this must do a better work in distributing CPU power between multiple
> >programs, but I have found that this makes other proccess to perform much
> >poorly.
>
>
> Don't use pause(), use __dpmi_yield() instead.
>
> Gisle V.

I don't see the difference. Performance is the same, it works much better
without both.

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