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  2. From: accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS frien
  5. Date: 9 Feb 1996 00:36:23 GMT
  6. Organization: Information Services, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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  15. >> Unless we're getting thousands of interrupts per second (which
  16. >> indicates we're probably using the wrong algorithm), no-one will
  17. >> notice the difference.
  18.  
  19. > One of my hw projects causes 4000-10000 hipri ints per second, all of which
  20. > are handled by the OS.  No problem at all.
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  22. I don't understand - I *has* do make a difference. At the very least it's
  23. like executing 4000 rte's per second, right? And probably much more for
  24. storing and retrieving registers, etc, especially with the OS.
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