Re: tlug: humour: Win98 source code

[Felix Morley Finch <felix@example.com>]

>>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.980717120839.1443E-100000@example.com>, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com> writes:

> If the mouse action on Linux (within my experience; YMMV) was twice as
> good as it is now, it would still be only half as good as it is under
> Windows 95.  Something I would dearly love to see get better, since
> I would describe it very much as in the above code: jumpy at times
> (especially when Netscape is involved; at which point it won't move
> while pages are being loaded), slow, poor ballistics (increasing the
> mouse speed results in erratic movement because of this), etc.  Is it
> possible to improve mouse performance by increasing the execution
> priority of GPM, and if so, how is that done?

The X server is single threaded, and X operations by one client can
block all other X server operations, including screen and mouse
updates.  When my machine had only a 486 w/o FPU (it is now a Pentium
Overdrive), loading fonts took many many seconds.  There are still
several Netscape actions (opening a new window, pulling down menus)
which block the X server when the machine is thrashing due to
background compiles, mail, ftp, etc.  But usually the whole machine is
quite busy, so I've never been too upset with anything other than
wanting a faster machine :-)

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