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I may be wrong but back in 90s an idle processor used up just as much electricity as an actively computing one.
by kolinko 7y ago
I may be wrong but back in 90s an idle processor used up just as much electricity as an actively computing one.
- schoen 7y agoThat's really part of what I was asking about. The claim from Wikipedia about Intel's HLT instruction shows that this started to change a lot by 1994, but I don't know if there are other similar considerations.