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mschaef
on March 23, 2017
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VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cur...
The Windows 1.0 clock (1988) had a 1Hz second sweep hand that ran on a 4.77MHz 8088. It's really just a couple clipped line segments each second.
http://variableghz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/windows-1....
jbmorgado
on March 23, 2017
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Yes, that was the point I was making. This is something computationally trivial as long as the code is written appropriately.
mschaef
on March 24, 2017
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Keep in mind though, that the performance optimization the Windows article talks about is how to reduce the working set in memory more than the CPU consumption.
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