From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bcdac28207102750 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Subject: Re: Ada95 speed Date: 1999/06/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 485794734 Sender: ohk@maestro.clustra.com References: <374182F2.B10AD449@Maths.UniNe.CH> <3741aa37.3892645@news.pacbell.net> <3741B203.4890880B@Maths.UniNe.CH> <7ht4ss$4mu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3743D5BB.37152F94@gte.net> <310519991456230875%hopperj@macconnect.com> <3753DA33.F2E088A0@gte.net> <7j26ph$8c8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37582CA5.987F1E85@gte.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.no X-Trace: news.telia.no 928527573 195.204.160.194 (Fri, 04 Jun 1999 22:19:33 CEST) Organization: Telia Internet Public Access NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 22:19:33 CEST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Clifford J. Nelson" writes: > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > In article <3753DA33.F2E088A0@gte.net>, > > cnelson9@gte.net wrote: > > > > > It took a few micro seconds to display the > > > result of the computations. > > > > No, that's obviously wrong, presumably this is a misprint > > for milliseconds (remember that the scan speed of typical > > displays of the period was 30-60Hz) > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Share what you know. Learn what you don't. > > It it right. It took a few micro seconds while the video mapped memory > pointer was updated. Am I the only one who remembers this stuff? > > Cliff Nelson > I think he's simply pointing out that while the pointer swap might take a few microseconds, you would not actually see it until the video screen had been updated a few milliseconds later :-) -- E pluribus Unix