On 2013/07/28, at 1:35, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013, at 09:16 AM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> On 2013/07/28, at 0:38, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote: >> >>> On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:15 AM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> But I'm avoiding NSTimer because I want to avoid being run looped in >>>> completely >>> >>> Why??? If the run loop on the main thread is busy, your display won't >>> update anyway. I think you're adding a lot of complexity for 0 gain. >> Why would I add to slowing down the main thread when I can run a >> dispatch_timer on another thread and get the timer to fire more reliably? >> That doesn't make sense. > > More threads != more better. One more thread. Really, surprised by this as I never said anything about more threads being better. Only that I don't want this timer on the main run loop. > > You're drawing on the main thread. Firing the timer on a background > thread gets you _zero_ benefit, because you have to forward those timer > pulses to the main thread anyway! I just tried both approaches and guess which one stays right there with the menu bar clock and which one lags? dispatch timer is the winner. And it's not doing a lot. I built a test app for each approach to verify. In each timer I set an NSDate property to the latest date, and set the stringValue on an NSTextField. I'm not using bindings. Maybe I should try a different run loop mode than default for NSTimer? Happy to hear suggestions here, but I see dispatch timer giving the precision desired and I don't feel like its costing me anything to accomplish. As per the docs, NSTimer gives millisecond accuracy, but can fire some undetermined time after the set fire interval. > > --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
