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From: "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem AT eunet DOT no>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: pause() in idle programas
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:01:58 +0100
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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.