On Dec 11, 2007 6:01 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2007 4:54 PM, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Almost every laptop user would benefit from it, and even some desktop or > >>server users might save on their electric power bill... > > > > > > Do you have data to support this claim? > > Even if it doesn't save any power, using CPU unnecessarily > is a bad thing for any application to do on a multitasking > system.
Hm, Apple and Microsoft don't seem to think so. They go out of their way to implement elaborate visual effects. Again -- is there any data about the cost of PyGTK's waking up 10x/sec on a typical laptop or server? (The XO is a special case because it has very different power management abilities.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
