[Coco] Tcp off-loading on CoCo

[Mark D. Overholser]

On 13-Apr-17 09:25, Zippster wrote:
> Yep.  I’m referring to the cycles consumed saving the entire machine
> state. If you’re getting a lot of these interrupts, that can add up
> to a lot of cycles.
>
> Obviously, if you aren’t pushing the limit with clock cycles, it’s
> not really an issue, but it can be if cycles are tight, where polling
> might be a better option.  Streaming audio for instance.
>
> - Ed
>
>

With Streaming Audio, if your Audio Data is in a reasonable sized 
Buffer, you Poll to see if you have enough data to Decode???

If you have a very limited Audio Buffer, you will probably want to have 
an IRQ to Pull it Out and place it into a Bigger Buffer..  And then Poll 
from there...

MarkO