From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9f6b6afb208715c0f2db6433d94f8b21@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:23:55 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <2470057889c7c25d3cf6c0284b3bcc73@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Raw Input Driver Topicbox-Message-UUID: c06218c4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 in the slow-network situation the thing you're responding to on the display might not be accurate (eg, feedback delayed) which low-level input merging won't address. (actually, the only time i have trouble with acme is when the mouse positioning is marginal and it slips. otherwise, no, i don't find things typed in a window where i didn't intend them.) >it's people realtime not real realtime. the former is an example of the latter. real-time is meeting deadlines. deadlines are always real, if you've got them. there isn't a distinction based on speed (ie, 1 usec is "real", but 10ms is not). any hard/soft distinction is typically based on whether the program can miss a deadline, and the consequences.