On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Henry Vermaak wrote:

On 21/12/11 15:56, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Henry Vermaak<henry.verm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Spinning like this is bad news for efficiency and battery life of embedded
devices.

Well, using X11 in an embedded device by itself is a very bad choice

Better tell Maemo they've made a very bad choice, then. It's not just embedded devices, laptops have batteries, too. You're wasting CPU and power just spinning around a loop, so even if your app isn't active, it's still waking up every 50ms. I don't consider this very good programming practice.

But presumably only if you are using a timer, in which case that's exactly
what the programmer wanted ?

Michael.
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