On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bob Colbert wrote:
>
> well, I've considered the idea of the paddle, and looked at my kernel, and
> realized that I'm probably only fooling myself thinking about using it. I
> spent an entire evening trying to squeeze out ONE more cycle from my
> kernel, without any luck. I still have one possibility though, I have a large
> chunk of time reserved in my kernel for doing housekeeping and sound, and I
> might be able to do a paddle routine there, but if I recall correctly, it
> takes up to 1 full frame to fully read the paddle.
Have you considered having Jim peek at your code and see if he can bum a
few lines out of it? If I remember correctly, he did a good job of
freeing up cycles in Oystron for Piero.
Chris Pepin
cpepin1@xxxxxxxx
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