On 6/22/00 7:34 AM, Craig Spooner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why do you need to know this?
>
> I've used the name of the CPU to as a rough measure of the speed of
> the machine. If the function returns the slowest of the PowerPC
> processors -- "601" for example -- I can skip a complex animation and
> show a simple graphic instead. So, basically, I've used the
> processor() function as a simple measure of the speed of the machine.
> Is there a better way?
Relying on the processor alone to determine system speed is of limited
value, since there are many factors which may affect overall throughtput.
Perhaps you might consider having some brief routine exectuted at startup to
establish a baseline index for your app. Commonly folks will animated some
object offscreen while their splash screen is up, or some such.
Using such a method to establish your own baseline will not only give you
more accurate results, but will also save Scott Raney the many anticipated
headaches trying to figure out how to obtain consistent processor info
across three OS families. ;)
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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