One thing that will totally kill MBP batter performance is if the system decides do kick over to dedicated graphics. I highly recommend this app: http://gfx.io/ It'll put an icon in the top right of your screen that shows which GFX card is in use. On my 2012 MBP I get about 6 hours of life on the integrated graphics and about 1.5 on heavy use with the dedicated graphics.
Now this all may sound like nonsense until you realize that LightTable is based on Webkit and that the entire UI is rendered via a combination of Web DOMs and Canvas objects. 9/10 times, a website using canvas will kick my machine into dedicated GFX mode. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that a different editor would dramatically improve battery life. On my MBP running Emacs LIVE (which has never been accused of being light on CPU usage), I can get about 4-5 hours of Clojure development before needing to plug in. Hope this helps, Timothy Baldridge On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:52 PM, gvim <gvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it likely that a typical Clojure development environment: > > - LightTable instarepl > - Luminus web app running within `lein ring server` > > .... will consume significantly more battery power than a typical Rails > environment: > > - Vim > - Rails app running within `rail server` > > It's just that I've noticed my new-ish Macbook Pro doesn't last as long > per charge as before I started development with Clojure and LightTable. I'm > aware that the JVM allocates significantly more RAM by default and > LightTable is RAM-hungry but I'm wondering if that implies increased power > consumption? I'm on Mountain Lion so don't have the new Activity Monitor > feature for checking this. > > gvim > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
