[squeak-dev] #turnOffPowerManagement preference

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 20:38:36 UTC 2013


Looks like it ends up calling a prim, so maybe something in the VM
needs removed too..

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:43 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 31-12-2013, at 4:38 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> I really do think this is a move-to-trashcan case...
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>
> tim
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