[Development] RFC: QSystemAlignedTimer to QtCore

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 11/21/11 11:22 AM, "ext Robin Burchell" <robin+qt at viroteck.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM,  <xizhi.zhu at nokia.com> wrote:
>> In short, it's a system-wide fuzzy timer, providing a service for
>>applications to synchronize their activity.
>>
>> Now I'm thinking of move it to QtCore, and preferably merge it into
>>QTimer. If so, we probably need to add some interface to specify the
>>precision, other than simply tell the type as in [1].
>> Any thoughts?
>
>I think Thiago has some work lying around to (behind the scenes) line
>up QTimers with a longer duration, with an option for precision, so it
>might be an idea to take a look at that work and see what's there :)

Thiago's work was IIRC limited to aligning timers within one process.
That's good, but  it doesn't yet cover the use case of having several
processes that you want to wake up together (to reduce wake ups and bundle
network traffic).

Cheers,
Lars