[M4IF Technotes] bifs related

[Jean-Claude Dufourd]

raju2003   bolt.com wrote:
>Does it keeps polling(not good)for the time to reach 
>startTime  so as to  start the processing of respective
>media ? 
>
There is no choice. You have to "poll". BIFS rendering has to examine 
some things at each frame, and the startTimes of time-dependent nodes is 
one such things. This is inherited from VRML.
Anyway, the impact of polling is negligible compared to e.g. video 
decoding, so your "not good" is moot.
Best regards
JC