Il 05 aprile 2012 16:28, Christopher Blauvelt <cblauv...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Dario Freddi <drf54...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Il 05 aprile 2012 07:32, Mike Dean <miketd...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >> > As an electrical engineer, I find this idea sound. >> >> Allow me, as an information engineer and a computer scientist, to >> > > As an engineer (choo, choo, I'm wearing my hat!)
With my "reading between the lines" hat, my allusion was very ironic, if it wasn't clear :) > allow me to remind everyone > that the wake-ups from the timers associated with such sampling would > prevent the CPU from going into power-save mode causing increased power > draw. And in my previous mail I forgot how the overhead given from processing the resulting image would draw CPU resources and power every reasonably short interval. Any other engineers want to give out their opinion? :D (joking) > > Chris >