[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Battery Benchmarking?

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Igor Stoppa wrote:
> Hi Tim!
> 
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:07 +0100, ext Tim Teulings wrote:
>> How can I work around this?
> *Don't do unnecessary stuff
> *Don't poll
> *Don't busyloop
> *Check system state (by listening for events, again, never poll)
> *Keep updates at minimum
> *Do updates only if your application is visible, otherwise completely
> stop updating the UI till you become again king of the hill

Thanks Igor for nice explanation, what about using threads? For n770 
some time ago people said that using threads (linuxthreads) caused some 
unneeded cpu activity caused by the library itself. Is it still the 
case? Are there any other similar gotchas present in the SW stack 
(glibc/X/gtk)?

Frantisek