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- This is a wee demo of the preemption facilities provided by the tornado
- support module v0.12alpha.
-
- A VERY nice demo of this thing in action is running multiple copies of the
- program - eg; get the full 32 processes running. I'd imagine it'd be quite
- usuable on a SA but on my 700 series it's still quite slow going. I shudder
- to imagine it running on my Arm2 A3000 ...
-
- Still, it works, and what you see here then is as bad as she gets. Preemption
- gets halted when updating the screen and the sprite redraw call used is a
- slow one (the full multi-flavoured SprOp 52) so it isn't too great an example
- really. On an Arm2 it crawls as you watch the sprite being drawn to the
- screen!
-
- Instructions for use: Select over the window stops the drawing (but cleverly
- - see the sources) and Adjust restarts it.
-
- A little note is that interactive help is supported - as an example of how
- the 17, 18 & 19 poll code handlers work.
-
- Have fun! And use the god damn module!
-
- Cheers,
- Niall
-