Andrew Haley píše v Út 03. 02. 2009 v 15:15 +0000:
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
>> The only
>> people benefiting from it is the ones doing mental calculations about
>> trees saved. That's a tiny minority.
>
> Actually, I would say that basically everyone benefits from any power
> savings, no matter how small they are (you know, reducing our energy
> consumption, saving the planet, all of that...)
It's even simpler than that: efficiency is a fundamental measure in all
engineering. More efficiency is always better, regardless of planets,
energy crises, and so on.
Meeting requirements is more important than efficiency.
Given a task,
engineers focus on performing it efficiently, but they are not always at
liberty to work on a different task just because it can be performed
more efficiently.
(Forced labor >16 hours a day is an efficient way use a fixed amount of
people to perform some tasks, but we are not building labor camps just
because it is efficient.)
In this case, "blinking cursor" is a requirement of some users, not an
internal detail of the implementation that can be changed at will if it
improves efficiency.
Mirek