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Article #3078Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 05:52
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 05:52
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In article <kevinbDMCMIy.B26@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:
> Fine. Then try running a "brain-dead" program like this instead:
> main()
> {
> while ( there_is_useful_work_to_be_done )
> {
> do_the_computationally_intensive_useful_work();
> }
> display_the_results();
> }
> where there_is_useful_work_to_be_done remains true for long periods of
> time (minutes, hours, perhaps even days).
So, you can't figure out how to get this to work well on a Mac, eh?
Hmmmm... <in deep thought for 4.2 seconds> How about putting a
WaitNextEvent() call in one of the inner loops of
do_the_computationally_intensive_useful_work();?
Is this really rocket science for you, Kevin?
I can't wait to see your next completely contrived example that you can't
figure out how to solve that the rest of us can trivally solve.
--
Nevin ":-)" Liber nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (520) 293-2799
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CS.Arizona.EDU!NewsWatcher!user From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 22:52:28 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona Message-ID: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> References: <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <jragosta-2601961539320001 <19960201.11A2980.E21F@olympus.net> <nevin-0302960411460001@150.135.1.79> <kevinbDMCMIy.B26@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b4