[Gnash-dev] Re: heart-beating

[strk]

Heart-beating is now committed to trunk.
Regressions bugs welcome.
Oh, btw, one is a single introduced failure in
misc-ming.all/intervalTest, known one.

--strk;

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:44:52PM +0200, strk wrote:
> After a talk with zou about MovieAdvancement issues
> [http://wiki.gnashdev.org/MovieAdvancement]
> we decided to try the heart-beating way.
> 
> Basically, movie_root::advance() won't assume to be
> called on SWF FPS rate anymore, but instead would check
> the VirtualClock to decide wheter or not to advance the 
> movie, but will take a chance to run expired timers.
> 
> Beside behavioural correctness for user-defined timers,
> this will also fix a few issues on dynamically loaded
> media rate, as we won't need that to be bound to SWF
> frame rate anymore. Also, it opens the doors to thread-less
> loading of resources since I committed a non-blocking
> interface of IOChannel.
> 
> Keeping the ::advance() signature and the single entry
> point drops the need to touch every gui. The only change
> required will be in Player, where a default initial rate
> of 10ms delay will be used.
> 
> Later we can fine-tune timers to eventually optimize
> time spent on checking what's left to do.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> --strk; 
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