[Development] RFC: QSystemAlignedTimer to QtCore

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 21 de November de 2011 10.52.39, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> 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).

It does somewhat, because it chooses an arbitrary but well-known boundary 
based on the system's monotonic timer.

But it's not enough in some cases. For example, two 30-second timers will be 
aligned to a 1-second boundary, but there's no guarantee that they choose the 
same boundary.

See http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,657 through
http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,662

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