Rosetta client

just asked THIS on the Rosetta site.

Ok... who's gonna do the port/altlvec optimisation ?

@Outcast

Yes having Rosetta for OS4 whould make me start crunching again.

I dont know if the client can run without Boinc and Boinc need WxWidget for a possible port to os4.

RWO

@rwo

WxWidget is a GUI frontend, isn't it?

Can't we do the core (as a cli/shell tool) itself?

As long as i don't get it wrong with the WxWidgets above,
but wouldn't a GUI eat needed cpu cycles?

@Raziel

No WxWidget is the same as Raction, MUI or Gadtool for that matter, its not a front end.

A front end is a window with buttons made from on of the above mention.

I ask on Rosetta bessage board if the client chould run without and they say no.. so to do a CLI version we have to strip down the frontend plus the client. It proberly chould be done but I prefere to do the WxWidget system and port it proberly.

RWO

@Raziel

Ohh forgot to anser the cpu usage..

An active window takes almost none cpu time as it waits for user input from either keyboard or mouse. An active window sometime lisents for Intuition Ticks and that can take a (very) small bide of the cpu time.

An Inactive window dont get the ticks so there is no cpu usage as it wait.

One execption is if the programmer adds Timers the chould use a little cpu time like running a Clock in the window or so or updating a gif anim in a browser window.

If you take mui as an example which uses ticks.. In the old days there were a MUI DNetC Frontend and running it all night you chould see the diffrents in numbered of claculated rc5 units if the window was active or not.

But mostley gui's dont take any notisable cpu time.

RWO

@rwo

Thanks for the answers

...isn't there a WxWidgets bounty on AW.net?
(At least a poll?)

@Raziel

Yes there was a poll about possible future bounties but none is choosen yet.

But we can hope that it gets a bounty plus a willing coder :)

RWO

@rwo

The author of X11 a long ago said he as a port of wxWidgets. You should ask him.

bye

Richi

@Richi

However, I guess this wxWidget port needs his X11 system... And i won't find it very pratical to lunch the X server only to do some crunching you know

@abalaban

I completely agree, but releasing it would benefit other porting too..

@Outcast

made a team

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