[Shootout-list] Windows

Brandon J. Van Every vanevery@indiegamedesign.com
Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:14:12 -0700


Aldo Calpini wrote:
>
> but I forgot to subscribe the mailing list :-)

Glad you're here now!  This makes my Windows porting questions much
easier.

> 1) the benchmarking code needs to be platform-specific. I
> don't know if
> Brent changed the code Doug Bagley wrote, but on Linux it relies on
> GTop, which is not available on Win32. on Win32, I wrote a
> little script
> which uses Win32::Process + Win32::API to do the job (which
> seems to be more accurate, but not portable alas).

This would have been significant head-scratching for me.

> cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@dada.perl.it:/CVS login
> CVS Password: anoncvs
> cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@dada.perl.it:/CVS -z3 co shoot

Grabbing it now.  Will look at it.  One question though: do you have
these gigantic 'reversefiles' under CVS?  Do they really need to be
there?  The download of those is going slooooooowly and I've heard they
might be just temporary files.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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