'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 10/02/10 19:26 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:16 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: >> Ok, the new "glitchless" code sounds cool. Reducing the interrupts >> seems close to pointless from a power savings view, unless we're in an >> embedded environment where we slow down the CPU and lower it's power >> on sub-second intervals. Otherwise, copying the data the data to the >> sound buffer will heavily dominate power. > > Why would the power concerns not apply on laptops and netbooks? And tablets.... *everyone* loves tablets these days.... except for all those folks who don't :p -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
