On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:16 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Question for the crowd.
>
> I've got the mvt100 terminal in C# running well.  It is compiled in Visual
> Studio.
>
> When I run in full screen mode, the cpu utikixlxation jumps to 50% and the
> response of the terminal is visibly slow.
>
> I get that the screen updates take time, but really?  My windows machine
> is less responsive than the little Pic based Geoff terminal.
>
> Is thisn indicative of bad code?
>

Yes. Sounds like something is broken or badly written. Some non-blocking
loop.

Generally a program waiting on terminal input has absolutely nothing to do
but wait for the OS to wake it up with a character.

-- John.

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