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We avoid calling getTimeZone for each of the time the date has to be
updated. Instead, it's computed once at the start and re-used for each
invocation.
Looking at the implementation of 'getTimeZone', we can see that it's
very expensive:
https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-15.15/time-1.9.3/src/Data-Time-LocalTime-Internal-TimeZone.html#getTimeZone
It calls a C FFI each time to get the time
zone (getTimeZoneCTime). This is something which we can avoid and the
MR implements that.
I have been using my xmobar with this patch and the result has been
quite good. My xmobar CPU usage has used to hit 3~7%
intermittently. With this MR, It hits only 0.7% intermittently which
is nice. :-)
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