Re: [AD] proposal: al_sleep()

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:25, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Attached is the docs patch. I'll commit everything to SF as soon as
> > their CVS services are restored.
> 
> +   Gives up some CPU time. This can be useful in order to "play nice"
> +   with other processes, or simply to make the CPU usage drop. This will
> +   look better to users, and also does things like saving battery power
> +   and making fans less noisy.
> 
> This is enough I think.
> 
> +   On systems that support it, it works by
> +   giving up the rest of the current scheduler timeslice. On other systems,
> +   it may sleep for a short while to achieve the same effect.
> 
> This is not exact anymore, so we need to drop it.
> 
> OK with that change.
> 

Ok, applied. And it's a big improvement in my opinion, seeing e.g. the
grabber use about 0% CPU :)

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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>