[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Colin Guthrie]

'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

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