klepto: yes it would be the easiest, but it defeats the event based programming which is indeed a "must have" for actual apps (I really hate apps that don't work this way because they suck my notebook accu empty just because of stupid programmers which don't wait for events)
Intel has an interesting article on this on their page which shows that others than waitevent based use far more power (factor 10) for the same work done.
Intel has an interesting article on this on their page which shows that others than waitevent based use far more power (factor 10) for the same work done.