Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/16/18:54:34
Paul Shirley (anti-spam man) wrote:
> In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980114131057 DOT 8730D-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes
> >
> >On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Paul Shirley wrote:
> >
> >> Try setting the RHIDE dos box settings under Misc/Background to 'Always
> >> suspend'. That should give the CPU back to windoze if you switch away
> >> from RHide which may be enough. Alternatively its time to hack RHIDE.
> >
> >This might not be the right thing to do, if RHIDE uses the idle time
> >to do something useful. For example, Emacs will continue to syntax-
> >highlight its buffers and to check whether buffers should be auto-
> >saved when the keyboard is idle. Telling Windows to "Always suspend"
> >will cause RHIDE to not get any cycles when its window is not the
> >active one, which will defeat such features (I don't know whether
> >RHIDE uses them).
RHIDE updates some things during the idle time, not the syntax highlight!
that's a real time task. Anyways the "problem" was fixed some weeks ago and I
put it clear in my announcement of my editor. Just calling to __dpmi_yield()
makes the "usage" (this value is really fake) to 1 or 2% (same under OS/2) so I
guess Robert will include it in RHIDE too. Anybody can download my editor and
check. The main reason of releasing my editor is to test these things.
> Stopping an editor doing syntax hilighting is not a valid reason to soak
> up 90%+ of cpu time, especially since presumably you are looking at
> whatever got the focus instead of RHide ;)
RHIDE never eats the CPU I think W95 GIVES the CPU to RHIDE if there is no
other task to run and hence RHIDE "usage" is 100%.
> The big problem is that gcc will stop compiling if you make RHide a
> background task. Since you can change the suspend status whilst running
> its not quite a disaster (but annoying if you need to change it
> regularly).
>
> Ideally you fix fix the misbehaving app, the suspend option is just
> another less effective (but easy) option.
We don't need to mess with these W95 settings at all.
> Paul Shirley: my email address is 'obvious'ly anti-spammed
Yes and anti reply too.
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