Re: Event heartbeat.

[bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)]

>I haven't done the test with MCL, but using some System 7 utilities from Apple,
>I have found that when Finder 7 is in the background doing nothing useful, its
>runtime is 0. Are you sure you do not have the option to compute folder sizes
>on?
>     Daniel.

My measurements show that System 7 hogs a lot more of the machine. I haven't
tested System 7.1 yet. Maybe it's better...

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Timed on a Mac IIfx.

;System 7.0, all inits disabled
Welcome to Macintosh Common Lisp Version 2.0!
? (time (dotimes (i 1000) (event-dispatch)))
(DOTIMES (I 1000) (EVENT-DISPATCH)) took 2072 milliseconds (2.072 seconds) to run.
Of that, 1303 milliseconds (1.303 seconds) were spent in The Cooperative Multitasking Experience.
NIL
? 

; System 6.0.7 with a few inits
Welcome to Macintosh Common Lisp Version 2.0!
? (time (dotimes (i 1000) (event-dispatch)))
(DOTIMES (I 1000) (EVENT-DISPATCH)) took 1144 milliseconds (1.144 seconds) to run.
Of that, 538 milliseconds (0.538 seconds) were spent in The Cooperative Multitasking Experience.
NIL
?