-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:31 am, you wrote: > and also instead of just idles of "nop" statements, I believe that it > uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power > consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room heater it > means a drop of 2-4 degrees c over a light load. A kernel complile or > long mp3 encode can mean a rise of 10 degree's c above the idle level > for comparison. Not a lot of advantage for a desktop, but well worth > while for a laptop.
Very true. That is one of the 'other things' i was refering too. Yet another piece of hardware not supported by windows BTW, linux is the only OS i know that makes idle calls to the CPU. Hence why battery life on linux laptops is about 10-15%> than on windows. And im typing this on a laptop so i know what im talking about. - -- Tom Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - ----------------------------------------------- PGP Public key available on request -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8aQeDXCpWOla2mCcRAid3AJ9UzZKUcHXyzi79V24SWZedmpTb7gCgm4e1 Y6b3pLvt8DsnluuGoV7m7C4= =Hb4O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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