Re: Usage of gtk_main_iteration_do ()

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 If you need to do something based on time, why can't you use g_timeout_add ?

--- Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If i do:
>
> while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
>    a_non_blocking_function();
> }
>
> then will this waste lots of cpu cycles?
>
> Should i do:
>
> while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
>    a_non_blocking_function();
>    usleep(10000);
> }
>
> to check everything 100 times a second?
>
> Is there a function to tell the linux scheduler to end the current
> time slice? That way i could replace usleep() with a scheduler
> yield function.
>
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