[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Arun Raghavan]

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?

-- Arun