Alex (or Zav) Zavatone previously served a four year sentence on Macromedia's Director/Shockwave Engineering team performing QA for Lingo sometime last century. In between then and now, he has done stuff and even performed things (product design, architecture and implementation). Marooned in San Francisco and when not being sarcastic, he has been spotted being formal, stuffy and consulting for clients whenever able. Those with email can him at zavpublic at mac.com.
Apparently since the dawn of time, Director has had quite an affinity for the
processor and its cycles. In fact, Director appears to like the processor so
much that when running, there is little to no free processor time. In the old
days, Director on the Mac had CPUHogticks to determine an amount of time to
give back to the processor, but nowadays that command doesn't exist and CPU
hogging becomes an issue for the following reasons: On laptops, hogging the
processor will result in 100% processor allocation, which will result in a
hot processor, which will turn the fan and lessen battery life. On OS X, your
whole system becomes less snappy. Director does not play well with other
applications if it asks for all the remaining processor power and may take
processor power away from other subsystems that the projector may access.
Hogging the processor makes distributing D... (more)
Alex (or Zav) Zavatone previously served a four year sentence on Macromedia's Director/Shockwave Engineering team performing QA for Lingo sometime last century. In between then and now, he has done stuff and even performed things (product design, architecture and implementation). Marooned in San Francisco and when not being sarcastic, he has been spotted being formal, stuffy and consulting for clients whenever able. Those with email can him at zavpublic at mac.com.
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