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- Item 1977770 13-Dec-89 21:35
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- From: CREMER.M Cremer, Mike
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- To: V0683 Amoco Tech, Eric Berdahl,VAR
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: RE: MA Linear Processes
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- Eric,
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- I think I am reiterating what someone else said (I forget who it was, sorry),
- but the simplest way to program a large linear process in MacApp is to use
- idlers. Specifically, use idlers as state machines, perhaps retaining
- information about intermediate stages. This has an added advantage or reducing
- memory requirements (assuming that the process can be perfomed in a piecewise
- manner). A caution, however: idlers get time when the machine is "idle", i.e.
- when lots of null events are popping though. Idlers ideally should be able to
- complete whatever task they are created for in a short period of time. Idlers
- that are heavily computation- or I/O-bound will cause the application to appear
- sluggish and unresponsive.
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- have a nice day,
- $mike cremer
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