<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 24-10-2013, at 4:34 PM, Igor Stasenko <<a href="mailto:siguctua@gmail.com">siguctua@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> (e) Cog uses heartbeat timer to interrupt interpreter at regular time periods<br>
> what can be done, i think it to suppress heartbeat, during relinquishProcessorForMicroseconds execution.<br>
> but that won't buy much, unless we increase the time period to sleep to be times larger than heartbeat cycle (both are 1ms).<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>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.</div>
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