I am building a mediaplayer-like application using reactive-banana.
Let's say I want a Behavior
that represents the currently selected track in
the track list.
I have two options: use fromPoll
to get the current selection when it's
needed; or use fromChanges
and subscribe to the selection change event.
I use the selected track Behavior
only when the user presses the "Play"
button. This event is much more rare than a selection change.
Given that, I'd assume that fromPoll
would be better/more efficient
than fromChanges
in this situation. But the docs say that "the
recommended way to obtain Behavior
s is by using fromChanges
".
Does it still apply here? I.e. will the polling action be executed more often than it is actually used (sampled) by the network?
In the current version (0.7) of reactive-banana, the fromPoll
function actually creates a behavior whose value is determined by executing the polling action whenever any event happens at all.
In contrast, fromChanges
will only update the behavior when the particular event given as argument has an occurrence.
In other words, in the current implementation, fromPoll
is always less efficient than fromChanges
.
Then again, I wouldn't worry too much about efficiency right now, because I haven't spent much time implementing suitable optimizations yet. Just use whatever is simplest now and save any efficiency issues for future versions of reactive-banana.
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