Re: Emacs on OS X development

[Jan Djärv]

Hello. 

24 jul 2012 kl. 18:09 skrev Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

>> From: Jan Djärv <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:25:41 +0200
>> Cc: Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden>,
>>    "address@hidden" <address@hidden>,
>>    John Wiegley <address@hidden>
>> 
>> The basic concept is to have one thread for file descriptors and let the 
>> main thread deal with Cocoa events.  The code today does something similar, 
>> but it relies on polling each 0.1 second.
> 
> Once in 100 msec is an awfully low frequency.  What happens if the
> period is decreased to 10 or even 5 msec?

It does not make much difference. The overhead of other stuff (enter and exit 
the loop) takes over. 

     Jan D.