On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:55:23PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > > In this case, "blinking cursor" is a requirement of some users, not an > > internal detail of the implementation that can be changed at will if it > > improves efficiency. > > A few, maybe, but in general this is quite incredible. The idea that > we should be wasting a fractional percentage of the total power budget > on something so pointless is utterly absurd. Uhm, sorry? The talk was of about 1-2W. Given that my Thinkpad T400 could go to 10,3W when idle, we are talking about serious percentage of power saved. This means longer on-battery work and longer battery lifetime (and not some fscking hipothetical trees saved). -- Tomasz Torcz "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station xmpp: zdzichubg chrome pl wagon filled with backup tapes." -- Jim Gray
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