[squeak-dev] #turnOffPowerManagement preference

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 21:25:26 UTC 2013


On 31 December 2013 20:38, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like it ends up calling a prim, so maybe something in the VM
> needs removed too..

Along with PowerManagement in its entirety, which exists only to call
that prim when appropriate.

frank

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:43 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 31-12-2013, at 4:38 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> I really do think this is a move-to-trashcan case...
>>
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected.
>>
>>
>>
>


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