Thread: CPU/Memory Applet promoted to Extras!
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arne.anka is offline arne.anka
2010-06-09 , 13:18
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Originally Posted by tuminoid View Post
While this is technically true, its very debatable if it actually changes anything. The processing cpumem-applet does is very tiny anyways, and since the display is on, it consumes massive amounts of energy, X.org consumes lots of CPU etc anyways.
while, again, this is technically true, i firmly believe, every app(let) should try to be as efficient as possible.
no app(let) runs alone on the device, but usually a lot of them do simultaneously, hence, every unnecessary, though small resource usage will eventually add up to a huge one.