Re:Observing the A11's Heterogenous Cores
by gumby on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:51PM
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I disagree: we've been playing these games for a long time and I don't see anything on the horizon.
You know how you start a phone call in Japan with Moshi moshi‡? In the 1990s the software in some of the PHS phones would wait until there was enough energy coming through the microphone before powering up the compression hardware in order to save just a little more power. So the "Moshi moshi" would get cut off.
Basically anything to save power -- people hate recharging.
‡ It's like the linguistic equivalent of the old TTY STX (which still survives in ASCII!)
You know how you start a phone call in Japan with Moshi moshi‡? In the 1990s the software in some of the PHS phones would wait until there was enough energy coming through the microphone before powering up the compression hardware in order to save just a little more power. So the "Moshi moshi" would get cut off.
Basically anything to save power -- people hate recharging.
‡ It's like the linguistic equivalent of the old TTY STX (which still survives in ASCII!)