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More accurate emulation speed management
As discussed between @jacobly0 and @runer112. Basically about frame drops, being too early/late, catching up, etc.
09:01:46 <@Runer112> if you're ahead, sleep until next_time 09:01:57 <@Runer112> if you're less than 0.1s behind, full speed ahead 09:02:15 <@jacobly> should I go with 100Hz? 09:02:25 <@Runer112> if you're more than 0.1s behind, manually pull up cur_time (or pull back next_time?) so the gap is only 0.1s, and then full speed ahead 09:02:52 <@Runer112> err 09:02:59 <@jacobly> oh, so only drop a multiple of .1s at a time? 09:03:05 <@Runer112> no 09:03:10 <@Runer112> drop any excess over 0.1s 09:05:12 <@jacobly> but then we stay stuck at .1s behind? 09:05:33 <@Runer112> you shouldn't 09:05:39 <@Runer112> if it's behind, it should run unthrottled 09:05:46 <@Runer112> it should be able to catch back up ... 10:39:24 <@jacobly> basically the question is should time spent in the debugger be dropped or should we just reset afterwards 10:41:52 <@Runer112> I guess ideally, after resuming from something like debugging, you'd set the defecit to 0
I dunno but I probably broke things. I'm not sure where last_time goes.
Well, I broke things but everything still works so I guess it's probably fine then?
Mateo has suggested that this outstanding issue is the cause of the bug that can lock up CEmu for a while upon giving it focus if "Pause emulation on focus change" is enabled.
This may take a bit more time to analyze and take care of, so we might as well postpone it for a later release, instead of making it block v1.1. Will be mentioned as a caveat in the release note...
Setting this as a release blocker and v1.1 again, following a discussion with @runer112:
<Runer112> my [release] veto has been constantly applied because of that bug
<Runer112> it has pretty negative usability implications
<Runer112> probably worse than the sum of all bugs in 1.0, from the perspective of the average user anyway
<Runer112> and from our perspective because everybody who downloads it will be reporting bugs about freezes and stuff
