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From 2009 – Much hot air over blinking cursors https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/ https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/ Quote from the article; > The blinking cursor
by angrygoat 10y ago
From 2009 – Much hot air over blinking cursors
https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/ https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/
Quote from the article;
> The blinking cursor causes the processor and GPU to be woken up frequently. On one of my test systems, this causes somewhere in the region of 2 Watts of extra power consumption.
This isn't about electron vs "native" apps. It's just that a smooth cursor animation rendered at 60Hz costs power; and if you look at the github issue, one config setting and that's gone, and so is the power usage when idle.