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Subject: Re: SSDF rating list: two interesting observations

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 11:09:27 03/05/98

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On March 05, 1998 at 13:49:44, Christophe Theron wrote:

>One important thing I can add is that Genius5 Windows STEALS a lot of
>CPU time. If I run both Genius5 Windows and Chess Tiger (in a DOS box),
>Chess Tiger runs 30% slower. That's why I have to use Genius5 DOS
>version, even under W95, when I want to play Genius/Tiger games on one
>computer.

Maybe Genius is polling the message queue.

There are two ways of checking to see if there is a message.  One blocks
until there is a message, and the other checks to see if there is a
message and comes back to you if there isn't.

bruce



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