Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:12:27AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
> > No, but the cpu cycles required to handle all the overhead do take more
> > power (more memory usually means someone is using it, otherwise it
> > really is bloatware), and yes its the cpu that is causing the power
> > consumption (and even if you do use accelerated graphics to reduce cpu
> > work, then it would be the graphics card that takes to power, and newer
> > laptop graphic chips can also scale power consumption according to usage)
>
> Now you're just spreading FUD. I could write a script that would load up
> 200Mb of data and then just sit there calling sleep. Stuff loaded into RAM
> doesn't equate to CPU consumption, sorry.
>
Of course you could, but that wouldn't be very proper
programing. Assuming proper coding it does imply in certain cases (and
window managers usually fall into that category) on computational
complexity.
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