KDevelop continuous activity?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday April 09 2020 20:51:13 Sven Brauch wrote:

>> spend a lot of time creating the DUChain cleanup thread (surprising, in a
>> session that only has TCL and patch files open?).
>
>What does "a lot of time" mean? Just starting the thread and notincing there's 
>nothing to do is already "a lot of time" compared to an otherwise idle 
>application.

Is the frequency at which this happens in any way related to how much there is to do?
In other words, couldn't (doesn't...) the cleanup mechanism
- suspend itself after having done the last thing there was to do
- get activated when something happens that will or could leave things to cleanup behind?

I realise this may seem overkill (certainly if there's usually something to be done), but the principle *seems* very simple and cheap.

(stopping the cursor blink when focus moves elsewhere is another case where you could question the actual gain, no?)

R.