Dear Bill,
You are right. Polling is not good.
But I noticed that Cocoa threading provides wait/pulse-like synchronization
techniques, such as Condition. I believe these techniques can be used to
control a thread which has a while-true loop. So I think RunLoop can be
replaced. Do you think so?
Best,
Bing
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Bill Bumgarner <b...@mac.com> wrote:
> In short, do **not** poll. Not ever.
>
> If you are doing something like this:
>
> while (stillDontGotIt) {
> sleepForAMomentAndHopeWeGetIt();
> }
>
> (or the obvious spin-and-try-lock variant).
>
> Then you are doing it wrong.
>
> It eats CPU, makes your app less responsive, eats battery life, and is less
> efficient. Far far more efficient is to set up various triggers or points
> of coordination -- queues, callbacks, run loop events, etc… -- through which
> your app will be notified when something is ready to be processed.
>
> b.bum
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