2012/3/28, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>: > You do not have to explicitly program anything for this: > Just run FDAPM APMDOS at some time, e.g. in your autoexec > and then run FDAPM STATS to see how much of the time the > CPU was idle - to be exact, which percentage of the time > slices contained any idle time, so "idle-ness" is always > over-estimated. Example: > > C:\>fdapm stats > Performing action: STATS > Found resident FDAPM / POWER driver version 1.0 > Savings mode: BIOS APM plus interrupt hooks (MAX setting) > CPU was idle 99% of the time
Thanks, it's worthy to know it - but... > So just getting the answer to "how much of the time was > the CPU idle since I loaded FDAPM" by typing a command > at the prompt is very easy. But you say that you wanted > to display real-time information about how busy you are > inside your program. ...yes, that's the thing I'm looking for in this particular case. > For that, you can add some queries > to FDAPM to your app. A good example would be a game as > Chess or Go: Sometimes you do heavy calculations, while > at other times, your software just sits there and waits > for the player to make the next move. You could display > information about this as part of the game... > > If you want, you can also query the stats in your apps: [..] Thanks: I'll start with your clues. Fortunately, every Forth has assembler built-in. > Maybe you could tell more about your project :-) Well, this time it'll be just Forth programming exercise. DX-Forth has BGI graphics driver, and I'm going - as "weekend fun project" - to translate "Polyhedra" script ( http://wiki.tcl.tk/14283 ) from TCL into Forth. Of course it has to be done smart way - not "mechanical", direct translation. I'm curious, whether am I able to create s.c. "good Forth code". ;) Hope weekend will be enough for this. -- Z. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
