From: Wayne Sherman <no-mail_at_waycat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:03:34 -0700

Could a similar strategy be applied to increasing battery life during
recording?

Thanks,

Wayne

> The magic is pretty simple: the wps thread does more
> mork than we want. The first cut battery extension just
> suspends scolling (without destroying the scroll infomation
> already calculated) and blocks the wps thread by waiting for
> keyboard input, after the backlight timeout has elapsed.

> The second cut will restore scrolling and screen updates,
> but defer settings savings. I suspect settings saving is
> the real hog, as I have previously experimented with optimizing
> (for size, not speed) the settings. Basically, wps only changes
> two settings, volume and resume position, but calling
> save_settings causes /every/ setting to be written to config_block,
> which is several hundred lines of bit masking and the like. This
> can happen up to about once a second, and is mostly pointless.
Received on 2003-07-29