On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 13:51 +0100, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > 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)? > Yes, I remember that, but probably Eero has a much better answer already available, so i'll let him the honour. I tend to prefer the thread approach but for coding and reliability reasons, but that's probably personal taste. -- Cheers, Igor Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com> (Nokia M - OSSO /Helsinki Finland)
