On 10 January 2012 20:02, Dimitry Golubovsky golubovsky@gmail.com wrote:

Igor Stasenko wrote:

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What is this:

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getMethod: 'setVMTimerInterval' withSig: '(I)V' inClass: vmcls.

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first time i see that. ?

Yes, that's JNI stuff I have to use to get certain things from Android.

So I wrote few wrappers and helper functions around JNI calls and helper functions to make it easier to resolve JNI calls in VMMaker. They all are under platforms/android in the VM tree on Gitorious.

This particular one is in response to a discussion on the Pharo list that CogDroid eats too much battery. It does, if the idle timer wakes it up too frequently. This VM primitive changes the idle timer frequency, so with large values in it VM may be (almost) completely frozen in the absense of user input.

Yes. I just thought that you made this call in interpreter code.. but then i see that you just added an extra plugin to vmmaker package. :)

Btw, Is there a reasons why you did that, instead of keeping a plugin in a separate package? Because some people are already concerned about VMMaker package size and voiced to split it on separate parts, while you doing completely opposite.

Thanks.

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