Re: [hpoj-devel] PML multiplexing added to ptal-mlcd

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Joe Piolunek wrote:
> It works fine for me, David. I had eight xojpanels running at the same time, 
> each showing the lcd contents of my parport connected 600.
Hi, Joe.  Thanks for the success report.

> As the number of simultaneous instances increased, scrolling slowed for all 
> to the point where it seemed very slow. Would that be related to the 
> "blocking api" ?
Yes, that would be the culprit.  ptal-mlcd services each PML session in a
round-robin fashion, so a client such as xojpanel might block waiting for
several other sessions to get serviced before it gets its reply.

David