Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:32:06 +1200 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <201406081314.08285.gheskett@wdtv.com> <468344054423943680.832468sturla.molden-gmail.com@news.gmane.org> <53951178$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4858ee10-6b22-4aba-b5c9-62b4f13080b0@googlegroups.com> <53953616$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <53957dfe$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1188a167-0b8d-43c5-ae24-d05ba8aaf899@googlegroups.com> <53990bad$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <53996daa$0$11121$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Favbuv19wZi3bA8i+gNMdw8M8IMSWP6mZRlabGV3Hmvz/PQF5f Cancel-Lock: sha1:/7QQXoc7bXWA8iQXD+YdSUhIj0M= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <53996daa$0$11121$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73215 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > It is my contention that, had Intel and AMD spent the last few decades > optimizing for power consumption rather than speed, we probably could run > a server off, well, perhaps not a watch battery, Current draw of CMOS circuitry is pretty much zero when nothing is changing, so if you didn't care how slow it ran, you probably could run a server off a watch battery today. Users wouldn't like waiting a week for their web pages to load, though... -- Greg