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jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch) writes:

>You're right, it was because of Executive. I rebooted without it and
>suddenly it started working the same as IBrowse, even following links
>in part-loaded pages while the .html was still loading just like
>IBrowse does. Unfortunately the whole machine became sluggish while it
>was processing (boy, it's really easy to notice the difference when
>you're not running Executive!).

Well, that happens when you have to do calculations.

>Perhaps the author could work on his
>multithreading a little to make it Executive-friendly,

I believe that this is Executive's task to be friendly. AWeb just starts
tasks at the same priority and Exec time-slices these. And Executive simply
stops the processing and rendering because it is an unimportant CPU intensive
background task. I.e that is exactly what it is supposed to do, but since it
only guesses what you want to do it sometimes guesses wrong.

>is? Is he relying on the tasks to be at certain priorities?

No. The tasks run at the same priorities and are timesliced. When Executive
reduces the priority of the CPU intensive processing task it simply stops.

>One other thing I noticed - when typing into a string gadget on a
>form, the whole border of the gadget is redrawn with each keypress. I
>presume this is also a CA problem.

AFAIK the form gadgets are not CA.

>Oh, and also, the last demo of
>IBrowse supports AS225r2 (I know you were complaining about this,
>Michael) but I haven't been able to get it to work yet (works fine
>under AmiTCP4.0 demo, fails to make any network connections under
>AS225r2, with or without renaming the http.library as indicated).
>I'd be curious to know if anyone else has got it working.

I will try it.

Regards,
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                                Michael van Elst

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