<div dir="ltr">Well let me reflect.<div>Nothing has changed, the VM energy sapping field is the same as yesterday, just more evident. </div><div><br></div><div> I wasn't able to determine what code base is used, but if I go back 5 or 10 years.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(a) The morphic event polling cycle runs 50 times a second. One could write some timer consolidation code there to consider when do I have to wake up and paint all those morphs? No C/Objective-C/assembler/fortran required... </div>
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</div><div>(b) Maybe the VMs are event driven now and Morphic does not need to poll 50 times a second? </div><div><br></div><div>(c) The BSD Unix socket system requires polling of some form. But see work by Craig 10-15 back on "Flow"</div>
<div><br></div><div>(d) When all the Smalltalk Processes settle, the dispatcher runs the lowest priority task which calls <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">relinquishProcessorForMicrosec</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">onds with a bogus value. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:21 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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Looking through some of the low-level changes in Mavericks I noticed stuff about timer consolidation. I *think* that it is something that you can offer to allow, rather than something done unto you code, but almost certainly it will have some sort of impact on the heartbeat ticker type of code used in stackvm/cog. Where is a skilled Mac vm maintainer when you need one?<br>
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