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kimixa 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cro...

If this stops the core being able to drop to a lower power state it can be whole multiples of power use on some devices.

Wake ups are death for mobile form factors, even if not really doing much work.

andai 4 months ago [–]

This is a pretty good argument against the way we do operating systems now, right?

kimixa 4 months ago | [–]

Why? Most modern OSs are "tickless" - where there's no regular scheduling tick and it can sleep pretty much indefinitely if there's no work.

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