On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:38:40PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> Is this still of any relevance? The description says "May offer higer
> performance at the expense of the life of your Battery (macintosh only
> in 3.VM)".
> 
> We don't have 3.x VMs anymore, and I rather doubt that a 4.5-class
> image could run on such a VM anymore?
> 
> If it is possible to run a 4.5-class image on a 3.x Mac VM, I'm happy
> to turn the preference into a Pragma style one, on PowerManagement.
> But if not, we should remove/deprecate the preference.
> 

It is unlikely that this preference has any relevance today. It should
probably be removed.

I do not recall exactly what this preference did (maybe Tim will know),
but I believe that it may have been used to control how aggressively the
image polled for events from the VM. Nowadays we avoid polling for events
as much as possible because the VMs can deliver events without polling,
so I would expect a preference like this to be of no interest any more.

Dave