[Vm-dev] OS X Mavericks & cog tickers

[John McIntosh]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 24-10-2013, at 4:34 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > (e) Cog uses heartbeat timer to interrupt interpreter at regular time
> periods
> > what can be done, i think it to suppress heartbeat, during
> relinquishProcessorForMicroseconds execution.
> > but that won't buy much, unless we increase the time period to sleep to
> be times larger than heartbeat cycle (both are 1ms).
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> If I understood, the timer coalescing can push timers around to produce
> spurts of activity followed by quiescence; this results in better overall
> power performance. It *might* cause problems with a high-frequency
> heartbeat.
>


You pick the "drain my battery real fast" option.... Also in the past known
as "higher performance" to remove the delay in the morphic polling loop.


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> tim
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