[wireties]

"The fact the cRio is 400MHz is moot" - Well, its not exactly moot. The cRIO is doing a lot more work but it is many many times faster. Its a 32 bit machine with primary and secondary caches running at 400Mhz with a floating point co-processor. It could be nearly 200X faster under some circumstances, more if you need floating point.

Running VxWorks is not like running windoze, its an industrial real-time operating system. The network stack is an extra load but the old processor was still handling application level comms with the driver station. And the work done by the network stack in VxWorks can be prioritized relative to any other activity (but interrupts).

The vision work is this game is a pretty simple algorithm. I don't think it will begin to stress the cpu bandwidth of the cRIO.