Re: Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:21:59 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Windows takes pains to not send out useless message broadcasts.  Other
> than these broadcasts, a program is only woken to receive a message
> when something specifically sends it a message.  If there's no system
> activity, or the only activity is unrelated to Emacs, Emacs won't
> receive any messages and won't wake up.

As long as no messages arrive, the w32 message-reading thread is blocked
inside the call to WaitForSingleObject (see w32xfns.c:get_next_message).
This call has no timeout, so it will block indefinitely.