ofSketch app eats up ~20% CPU when idle

[mikewesthad]

I see that setup() locks the framerate, but could one of the threads be running beyond that rate (on windows)? Or is ~20% to be expected for the app?

[bakercp]

it should be doing nothing .. what platform?

[mikewesthad]

Win 8.1

[mikewesthad]

[mikewesthad]

(Not a big deal at all, just noticed by fans always spin up when I open up ofSketch)

[brannondorsey]

Any empty openFrameworks project does that for me. Does your machine
generally handle oF apps well?

[mikewesthad]

Afk, but I did test that yesterday. Simple oF apps were taking around 10
percent. I'll verify with actually numbers later

[bakercp]

The latest build of ofSketch, which isn't released yet, doesn't use a window, but rather CEF (chrome embedded framework). It doesn't even have a GL context, so theoretically we should be able to convert it to an async event based system rather than the standard loop, which is what is likely eating up CPU. It should basically be using 0% CPU unless it is compiling.

[mikewesthad]

Re: percentages. ~20% oF sketch app, ~12% particle system, ~0 empty example

Cool to the new unrelased version

[mikewesthad]

jonathan + nate were talking about how hot their computers get when running ofSketch. they're at ~90% cpu. just figured I'd tack that on here

[bakercp]

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