On 06/30/2015 02:50 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> Definitely use RequestSync rather than alarm API! There are battery
> saving advantages already, and these advantages will just get better
> in the future as we improve the implementation of the API.
Are you sure about the battery savings? Last I look requestSync was
using gecko timers while the alarm api is doing a blocking read from a
kernel managed file descriptor on its own thread. I would be surprised
if there was any significant difference.
Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
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