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Tactic: Less frequent or avoiding polling

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Software Practice
Category: green-software-practice
Tags: energy-footprint 

Title

Less frequent or avoiding polling

Description

Event based programming avoids a waste of resources involved in doing unnecessary operations. If polling cannot be avoided, it is advised to select a fair time interval.

Participant

Software application developers

Related software artifact

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Context

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Software feature

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Tactic intent

Less frequent or avoiding polling

Target quality attribute

Energy-efficiency

Other related quality attributes

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Measured impact

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Source

Procaccianti, G., Fernández, H., & Lago, P. (2019). Green Software in Practice: Empirical Validation and Assessment of Best Practices for Writing Energy-Efficient Software. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, October 2019.


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel