Continuous Reporting

[TheMrSheldon]

Since we already collect a lot of runtime information (RAM-, CPU-, GPU-, VRAM-, usage, …) it would be a great feature if we could allow people to poll this data during runtime, e.g., to display hardware utilization.

So far I thought about two different avenues to implement this:

• Polling: We provide a function such as tirexError tirexHandlePollMeasure(tirexMeasureHandle*, tirexMeasure, tirexResultEntry*) with which a user may poll the current value.
• Observers: We provide functions tirexError tirexHandleObserverAdd(tirexMeasureHandle*, tirexMeasure, void(*)(void*, tirexResultEntry*), void*) and tirexError tirexHandleObserverRemove(tirexMeasureHandle*, tirexMeasure, void(*)(void*, tirexResultEntry*)) for registering and removing observers that get notified on every change.

I prefer the polling since I believe that observers add too much overhead and complexity (e.g., that the user had to handle the lifetime of the userdata that can optionally be passed to the observer callback).