Re: proposal - Debian laptop package/distribution

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

> 
> you could have all the pieces of code which are apm sensitive check to see
> if apm is currently enabled and modify their behavior accordingly rather
> then statically defining it at compile time.  i'm not sure what the
> overheads/complications of that would be though.

Not feasible, in places you would have:

my_function() and my_function_apm() w/ an if every time.  The over head would
get you.  Plus some pieces actually use different data structures, i.e a
struct w/ an extra member.