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Timer coalescing has been around for ages. Linux and Windows both already do it. Here's a 2009 article describing it in Windows: https://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2009/10/03/windo...

"App Nap" is a familiar concept to anyone who has ever played a game with unfocused framerate caps (like most MMOs, for example). It being enforced by the OS may be new, though. It kind of feels like a more aggressive `nice` though.



Apple had timer deadlines (much the same thing) in the kernel since the 10.5.5 release for their then new MacBook Airs, in November 2008.


I bet Apple filed patents for App Nap already.




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