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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