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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 14:22:27 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch) writes:
-
- >mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >>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.
-
- >Only if you do the calculations at the same priority as your event
- >handling.
-
- Yes. But this isn't done by AWeb or ClassAct. It is done by MUI, most
- editors and effectively by the console in raw mode.
-
- >If AWeb put the image decoding at a lower priority itself (which is a
- >reasonable thing to do,
-
- That's something that you do not want. You want I/O, decoding and
- rendering done concurrently and this means: at the same priority so
- that they are timesliced.
-
- Of course you can drop the priority of all these tasks to the same
- level. But apparently this is not what happens with Executive.
-
- >downloading tasks are handled separately, but it appears the page
- >layout is handled by the same task that handles user interface events.
-
- Either that or the tasks are synchronized with semaphores.
-
- >processing incoming events, making the whole thing feel sluggish. The
- >ironic end result is that the MUI program actually feels *more*
- >responsive.
-
- I can't see that MUI feels responsive when I click on a gadget and
- do not get any feedback.
-
- >>I will try it.
-
- >Any luck? At least two others have posted they haven't got it working,
- >either -- sounds like the same problem I had.
-
- No :-/
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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