Re: "Linux ported to non MMU system"

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Christof Donat wrote:

> You're right. MiNT is already slow  - though perfectly usable -,

How is MiNT slow? It's faster than MagiC on my Afterburner...

> In this case sceduling desiccion is manny dereferancations.) Also interactive 
> threads willget most of the time wheras non interactive threads start with lots 
> of time, assuming they are interactive and then are reduces to get along with 
> the rest. This way the System will fell very much faster (I hope). 

Are you talking about raising the priority of IO-intensive tasks? That
makes sense, in addition to give more time to the UI it should also
speed up compilation etc. a bit.


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