Is this still of any relevance? The description says "May offer higer
performance at the expense of the life of your Battery (macintosh only in 3.VM)". We don't have 3.x VMs anymore, and I rather doubt that a 4.5-class image could run on such a VM anymore? If it is possible to run a 4.5-class image on a 3.x Mac VM, I'm happy to turn the preference into a Pragma style one, on PowerManagement. But if not, we should remove/deprecate the preference. frank |
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:38:40PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> Is this still of any relevance? The description says "May offer higer > performance at the expense of the life of your Battery (macintosh only > in 3.VM)". > > We don't have 3.x VMs anymore, and I rather doubt that a 4.5-class > image could run on such a VM anymore? > > If it is possible to run a 4.5-class image on a 3.x Mac VM, I'm happy > to turn the preference into a Pragma style one, on PowerManagement. > But if not, we should remove/deprecate the preference. > It is unlikely that this preference has any relevance today. It should probably be removed. I do not recall exactly what this preference did (maybe Tim will know), but I believe that it may have been used to control how aggressively the image polled for events from the VM. Nowadays we avoid polling for events as much as possible because the VMs can deliver events without polling, so I would expect a preference like this to be of no interest any more. Dave |
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On 31-12-2013, at 4:38 AM, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]> wrote: > Is this still of any relevance? The description says "May offer higer > performance at the expense of the life of your Battery (macintosh only > in 3.VM)". > > We don't have 3.x VMs anymore, and I rather doubt that a 4.5-class > image could run on such a VM anymore? > > If it is possible to run a 4.5-class image on a 3.x Mac VM, I'm happy > to turn the preference into a Pragma style one, on PowerManagement. > But if not, we should remove/deprecate the preference. I really do think this is a move-to-trashcan case... tim -- tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected. |
Looks like it ends up calling a prim, so maybe something in the VM
needs removed too.. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:43 PM, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote: > > On 31-12-2013, at 4:38 AM, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]> wrote: > >> Is this still of any relevance? The description says "May offer higer >> performance at the expense of the life of your Battery (macintosh only >> in 3.VM)". >> >> We don't have 3.x VMs anymore, and I rather doubt that a 4.5-class >> image could run on such a VM anymore? >> >> If it is possible to run a 4.5-class image on a 3.x Mac VM, I'm happy >> to turn the preference into a Pragma style one, on PowerManagement. >> But if not, we should remove/deprecate the preference. > > I really do think this is a move-to-trashcan case... > > > tim > -- > tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim > A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected. > > > |
On 31 December 2013 20:38, Chris Muller <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Looks like it ends up calling a prim, so maybe something in the VM > needs removed too.. Along with PowerManagement in its entirety, which exists only to call that prim when appropriate. frank > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:43 PM, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> On 31-12-2013, at 4:38 AM, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >>> Is this still of any relevance? The description says "May offer higer >>> performance at the expense of the life of your Battery (macintosh only >>> in 3.VM)". >>> >>> We don't have 3.x VMs anymore, and I rather doubt that a 4.5-class >>> image could run on such a VM anymore? >>> >>> If it is possible to run a 4.5-class image on a 3.x Mac VM, I'm happy >>> to turn the preference into a Pragma style one, on PowerManagement. >>> But if not, we should remove/deprecate the preference. >> >> I really do think this is a move-to-trashcan case... >> >> >> tim >> -- >> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim >> A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected. >> >> >> > |
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