Re: [Emc-developers] Updating a few things here

[Jon E. <el...@pi...>]

Mario. wrote:

>7 years advance equals to 2160MHz Pentium1, say 1500MHz Pentium3 would suffice.
>So, you are oficially not keeping the tempo with advance. Your machine
>is still behind the times (even if it does the job ;-) )...
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Who needs that speed?  EMC ran fine on my servo system with a 100 MHz 
Pentium classic.
The only reason I need 600 MHz now is to support the *#&^$&  graphics 
bells and whistles
of the bloated KDE desktop, although it does recompile EMC2 a lot 
faster.  Also, HAL is a lot
less efficient than the old direct connection between trajectory and 
motion of EMC1.

Since I am not using software step generation, the processor is totally 
loafing.  Even with
all these inefficiencies, the entire servo calculation takes under 100 
us, every ms.  So,
that is just 10% of the CPU.

Jon