Reducing pygame cpu-load to < 4 %

[Jim Gettys]

In this case (animation), the games should "go quiet", if there is no
user input after a short period (say, 30 seconds).  It is pretty easy to
get the window system to tell you when it has been idle, I believe (the
X screen saver extension, for example).

When no animation, applications should be quiet as a tomb...

We can't rely on young kids to remember when to suspend a computer, I
don't think....
                             - Jim

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 17:28 -0200, Roberto Fagá wrote:
> Jim
> 
> This is specific of games which use many resources, like animations
> and some more advanced graphics. I also think will be nice if screen /
> video driver supports other screen resolution, like 600x450 and less
> color depth if the only depth that XO works is 16bits. This can save
> CPU/GPU to some games that need speed but not so much resolution...
> 
> The 100% using CPU happens only if you don't use anything to control
> framerate, and for it you can use the pygame clock, time.sleep and the
> event.wait if you can freeze application while you wait for an event.
> Can happens too if the game / pygame application uses many resources,
> exactly as a GTK/Hippo activity does.
> 
> []'s
> 
> On Dec 10, 2007 5:11 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> > There is one piece of this discussion that is scaring the bejesus out of
> > me: the idea that an application should take *any* cpu time when the
> > user isn't doing anything...  Is this specific to pygame based
> > applications? Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Electricity doesn't grow on trees, you know....  In Peru, 55,000 of the
> > machines will be going to schools/kids with *no* electricity.  And this
> > is just the beginning...
> >                            - Jim
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