Hans Meine wrote: > Hi! > > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 17:47, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> > No need for this. The default largest select sleep time in nf_generic >> > anyway is 100ms. That's plenty for an idle loop. And that not doing >> > this would solve the 100% cpu issue. >> >> Not for gtk. If you add something to idle in gtk and don't remove it, >> you will always use 100% CPU time. > > It's not an "issue to be solved", it's a features AFAIK. I use that a lot > (with Qt actually) as a poor man's (and hassle-free!) threading technique, to > do calculations in the background.
Yes, we know. It is a nice feature I'm also thinking in adding to the
generic notifier. Right now I use small timer (0 or 10 ms) to do
things like this, but a real idle timer, maybe connected to the real
CPU idle time would be nice to have.
Dischi
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