The conclusion is: more work is required on both sides, VM and image.
2013/10/29 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > > > A greater than, say, 1% base CPU load from an otherwise idle application > would indicate that it's doing some busy waiting somewhere... in my > Activity Monitor, I don't see too many processes doing that, so just using > an ObjC framework doesn't seem to be the guilty part. By the way, very old > versions of VisualWorks used to be bad in that way, but not any more; so > there is something that can be done about it. > > if I'm correct there are some busy waiting process in the VM instead of an > event based + semaphore architecture. > We already removed some of the polling behavior at the image level but > there are probably more and there was a discussion in the > VM mailing list. Now I do not know the conclusion. > > > A large virtual memory working set wouldn't help either for power > efficiency, though with today's RAM sizes it's probably less important. > > > >
