Good points about the graphics, Tim. Do you have any idea if the JVM's
RAM requirement in itself takes more power from the system than
developing, say, a Rails app in Vim? One pisser with my new-ish Macbook
Pro is there's no such thing as a spare battery.
gvim
On 20/01/2014 03:47, Timothy Baldridge wrote:
One thing that will totally kill MBP batter performance is if the system
decides do kick over to dedicated graphics. I highly recommend this app:
http://gfx.io/ It'll put an icon in the top right of your screen that
shows which GFX card is in use. On my 2012 MBP I get about 6 hours of
life on the integrated graphics and about 1.5 on heavy use with the
dedicated graphics.
Now this all may sound like nonsense until you realize that LightTable
is based on Webkit and that the entire UI is rendered via a combination
of Web DOMs and Canvas objects. 9/10 times, a website using canvas will
kick my machine into dedicated GFX mode.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that a different editor would
dramatically improve battery life. On my MBP running Emacs LIVE (which
has never been accused of being light on CPU usage), I can get about 4-5
hours of Clojure development before needing to plug in.
Hope this helps,
Timothy Baldridge
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