Lowering high CPU rates?

[Richard Gaskin]

Kee Nethery wrote:

> On Mar 16, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> While it's true that Apple's compositing wastes a great many clock  
>> cycles for minor incremental aesthetic enhancements, and it's  
>> painfully true that the limitations of their APIs requires  
>> developers of tools like Rev and SC to jump through some pretty big  
>> hoops to allow their developers to have default buttons rendered  
>> reliable against even non-Apple-sanctioned-stripes backgrounds, the  
>> actual CPU time Rev takes up to deal with all of Apple's nonsense  
>> was tremendously reduced several versions ago.
>>
>> Which version are you using?  In v2.9 and the last few prior, I  
>> don't recall seeing any idle state exceed 15% of total CPU time  
>> (more than ideal, perhaps, but down several times from what it once  
>> was and may be able to be brought down even lower if Apple changes  
>> their compositing API).
> 
> I agree, in times past it was a HUGE CPU hog and now it is down to a  
> more manageable CPU usage, but still kind of high for my preferences.
> 
> Running 2.8.1 on PowerPC G4, a throbbing button takes the CPU from  
> 0.6% to 15.8% (dialog box no background stack window) to 19.5 (stack  
> visible with a throbbing button on it).
> 
> Mail.app goes from 2.5% CPU (foreground no throbbing button) to 12.5%  
> (dialog with throbbing button).
> 
> Really all I want is some way to denote that there is a default choice  
> and I'd be happy to just have the blue aqua color without the CPU  
> eating throbbing.

Given the complexity of Rev's rendering process, I'm not sure what how 
difficult it would be to special-case that, but it doesn't hurt to ask:

<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/>


> Wouldn't it be cool to be able to turn off the  
> throbbing animation for default buttons but to retain the indication  
> that it is the default.

It would:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/>


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