Only draw when necessary

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Only draw when necessary

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 2 comments

We use an interval-scheduled function to poll the keyboard and implement key repeat manually.

Annoyingly, Pyglet always redraws windows once you add an interval-scheduled function to the clock. There does not appear to be any path whereby the scheduled function can inform the main loop if it actually wants a redraw or not.

We need some other way to implement keyboard polling without triggering redraws, and also some way to continuous redraws during dissolve animations.

Answer 1 · 2021-12-20T04:30:03.000Z

db8d3ae did not reduce the CPU/energy usage significantly according to Activity Monitor on my 2013 rMPB, but it still seems to reduce the fan usage significantly.

Answer 2 · 2021-12-20T05:35:52.000Z

Looks like fixing the queue busy poll in dd68b2a also helped a lot with energy usage. tried ablation, the slow tick is still important.