Method Pike.PollDeviceBackend()->enable_external_runloop()

Method enable_external_runloop

int enable_external_runloop(bool enable)

Description

On systems with CoreFoundation (OSX, iOS, etc), delegate running of the Pike Backend to the main runloop of the process (such as a Cocoa application's NSRunLoop).

Enabling the external runloop allows Pike callouts and callback-based I/O to function normally while greatly reducing cpu utilization compared to running the external runloop manually.

Parameter enable

enable or disable this functionality

Returns

the previous value of this setting.