Igor Stoppa wrote: > Hi Tim! > > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:07 +0100, ext Tim Teulings wrote: >> How can I work around this? > *Don't do unnecessary stuff > *Don't poll > *Don't busyloop > *Check system state (by listening for events, again, never poll) > *Keep updates at minimum > *Do updates only if your application is visible, otherwise completely > stop updating the UI till you become again king of the hill Thanks Igor for nice explanation, what about using threads? For n770 some time ago people said that using threads (linuxthreads) caused some unneeded cpu activity caused by the library itself. Is it still the case? Are there any other similar gotchas present in the SW stack (glibc/X/gtk)? Frantisek
