An educated guess would be that polling should be less efficient as the event based FSEvents. Any reason you do not want to tap into the FSEvents API?
You concerns about weakening is nothing I would consider, as you're talking about reading, which should be considered harmless (in the physical sense, not the performance point of view) -Michael On 28.04.2013, at 19:43, Steven Degutis <sbdegu...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a library I'm using that is reading a list of files every 0.5 > seconds and watching for the last-modified attribute to change. > > Is this less efficient than using FSEvents? If so, how? For example, will > it weak down the HDD or SSD faster? Run the battery of my laptop out > sooner? Some other way? > > Thanks. > > -Steven > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/michael.starke%40hicknhack-software.com > > This email sent to michael.sta...@hicknhack-software.com ___m i c h a e l s t a r k e____ geschäftsführer HicknHack Software GmbH www.hicknhack-software.com ___k o n t a k t____ +49 (170) 3686136 cont...@hicknhack.com ___H i c k n H a c k S o f t w a r e G m b H____ geschäftsführer - maik lathan | andreas reischuck | michael starke bayreuther straße 32 01187 dresden amtsgericht dresden HRB 30351 sitz - dresden _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
