OT: This Swift thing

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jun 12 07:32:06 EDT 2014


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It is my contention that, had Intel and AMD spent the last few decades 
> optimizing for power consumption rather than speed, we probably could run 
> a server off, well, perhaps not a watch battery,

Current draw of CMOS circuitry is pretty much zero when
nothing is changing, so if you didn't care how slow it ran,
you probably could run a server off a watch battery today.
Users wouldn't like waiting a week for their web pages to
load, though...

-- 
Greg



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