Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  david@tethera.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   akrl@sdf.org
> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:31:01 +0800
> 
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> 
> > The point with battery consumption is not about running vs. standby.
> > The issue is that while users expect that running apt-get will drain the
> > battery, they expect that once apt-get is done, the only battery-hungry
> > processes are ones they start themselves.  Laptop users typically avoid
> > running apt-get without mains power plugged in.  If I do an 'apt-get
> > upgrade' then afterwards my CPU will be churning away compiling addon
> > packages, so I can't just unplug.
> 
> I don't know if that's true with Debian users, but nobody I know of
> objects to running "dnf install" on battery.  After all, installing new
> packages only takes a short amount of time, certainly not enough to
> significantly affect battery usage.
> 
> OTOH, async native compilation is something I would definitely plug in
> for.

Why the difference, I wonder?  Async native compilation also takes a
short amount of time, as the data I posted indicates.