[fpc-pascal] Timer in X11

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
> Strange statement.
>
> If select() didn't do its job correctly, neither Qt or Gtk could do their
> job, or any network related program, for that matter.

It is not about select working or not, it is about how many file
descriptors X uses to communicate:

http://fixunix.com/xwindows/91558-xconnectionnumber-select.html#post301681

I don't have time in the foreseeable future to find in which wierd
corner case XAddConnectionWatch is necessary and test that a
implementation which I come up with works, but Qt could pay someone to
stay all week testing wierd corner cases and find the most perfect
algoritm. For me, timeouting every second is already more then good
enough, it could even be each half second. Already at 50ms I could not
see my application with top in the top 20 CPU users (most of which
were using zero), so I seriously doubt the battery usage concerns
unless someone really measures it.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho