The JVM hasn't been receiving the love it deserves lately! Fortunately, percent memory usage isn't going to have any effect on battery life until you hit swap. The resources you should consider are just activity on the cpu/gpu/disk.
So yeah, it's light table. It's not its fault for being released ~2014. On Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:55:45 PM UTC-5, g vim wrote: > > Good points about the graphics, Tim. Do you have any idea if the JVM's > RAM requirement in itself takes more power from the system than > developing, say, a Rails app in Vim? One pisser with my new-ish Macbook > Pro is there's no such thing as a spare battery. > > gvim > > > > On 20/01/2014 03:47, Timothy Baldridge wrote: > > 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 > -- -- 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.