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Pretty awesome, but I'm not sure if I want my GPU fans spinning if all I'm doing is looking at a terminal :P
by dvt 10y ago
Pretty awesome, but I'm not sure if I want my GPU fans spinning if all I'm doing is looking at a terminal :P
- jwilm 10y agoThe amount of time spent doing GPU work is rather small. Battery life tends to be better on my Macbook with Alacritty than with other terminals. This seems to suggest that power consumption is actually less than with CPU based renderers (and that your GPU fans shouldn't be spinning).
- dvt 10y agoI didn't realize there's no Windows version available yet, I was totally thinking about my Windows laptop. My Apple (work) laptop is much better about not turning on fans willy-nilly.
- dualogy 10y agoNot necessarily due to "your Windows laptop", sometimes it's due to hidden/forgotten vendor bloatware and Windows' very own background services. That is, due to shabby software, not your laptop. I disabled Windows Update (rather check it manually every other month) and went through the list of services that'll realistically never be used even indirectly to disable and voila, no more random fan spinning! Until I open a WebGL page or something that is.. that "3D JS" will heat up even a current mobile workstation with a 3GB-VRAM Quadro GPU!
- outworlder 10y agoIf you use any modern OS, you are likely staring at textures composed by the GPU. This is no different and, in fact, can eliminate some of the middle-"men".