Re: Plugin threading model in Electrolysis

Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can implement the rendezvous by creating a heartbeat timer in the 
> plugin process that fires at X Hz (X might be 120).  When that timer 
> fires, we know that the plugin is idle and ready to receive messages. 
> So the timer callback sends a Rendezvous() message to the browser,
> and if the browser has outstanding events in its queue, it processes
> them normally.  Otherwise, the browser responds to the Rendezvous() 
> immediately, and the rendezvous is a no-op.

This is going to do bad things for power saving.  Can't we find a
solution that lets the plugin process go completely idle (== block on
select() or equivalent indefinitely) when there's nothing to do?

zw