RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:17:29PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:

> And your implied claim that it's a majority is nothing more than
> anecdotal as well.  In fact, I would even say the verification of your
> wattage-savings is a bit of a guess based on the description I've seen
> of your testing.

Oh, I'm certainly not going to claim that a majority of our users care 
about power consumption. I've got absolutely no idea what the relative 
weightings are, just anecdotes in both direction. That said, if you've 
got any better ways to measure the power difference, I'd be happy to 
provide more figures. The 2W one pretty closely matches the expected 
figure (40ms of smoothing plus a frame for the change to take effect 
times two transitions per second, gives a figure of a little more than 
10% of the time in an upclocked state, and 18W or so between the 
upclocked and downclocked figures on the hardware in question) so I'm 
fairly happy with the result.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org