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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Interrupts Maximum Rate 
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On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Schuster wrote:
> Here the results:
> 
> P120 - Triton I chipset (Intel): 58 kHz
> 486 DX50 (AMD): 35 kHZ
> 
> Additional, if I do 12 imports (0 WS) in the Handler, the result is:
> 
> P120 - Triton I chipset (Intel): 40 kHz
> 486 DX50 (AMD): 22 kHZ
> 
> ... Just in case, somebody wants to know.
> (Perhaps an update in the FAQ, Eli?)

Neat.

However, I think the problem addressed by the FAQ is not so much the 
maximum interrupt freq, but how high a freq before you notice a 
significant lag in your (non-trivial) program running in the foreground.  
This is not the case in your experiment I think, or am I wrong?

Of course the rule of thumb offered by the FAQ may vary with program 
type.  A program that does a lot of waiting for user input could probably 
use your timings, but a CPU intensive prog might have noticable lag even 
below 10 kHz.

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto