At 10:29 PM 1999/09/15 +0200, "Shot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I was wondering why the "Iterations between screen outputs" setting
>was defaultly set on 100, and I thought it was beacuse each screen
>output takes precious CPU time.
>
>But when I changed it from 100 i/o (usually around 0.430 sec/iter) to
>10 i/o, nothing really slowed down - the time was still between 0.430
>and 0.431 s/i.
>
>So I boldly went where no man has gone before ;) and changed it to 1
>i/o... and the times still stayed between 0.429 and 0.431 s/i.
>
>The question is, how much of the CPU's power is consumed by screen
>outputs?
Hardly anything these days, with fast pentiums and smart video cards.
But on 486's & 386's it was significant. I have systems where it's
set to 5 iterations, and systems where it's set at 1000 iterations.
It all depends on system speed, exponent size, and desired update frequency.
Ken
Ken Kriesel, PE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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