silent PC vs. emacs

[Dan Jacobson]

Please try
$ strace firefox
$ strace emacs

Notice that after things settle, firefox gives the CPU or whatever
several seconds of rest between polling etc. activity, whilst emacs
causes a constant stream.

I notice when I exited emacs, my laptop fan soon was able to take rest
breaks. With an emacs running, even idle, the fan never stops!
(Well sometimes it never stops anyway (Celeron M, no power saving))

Can you please add an .emacs option allowing a different algorithm
than the current one.

As you can see with sites like http://silentpcreview.com/ and the $100
laptop for poor countries, one hopes emacs doesn't think nowadays
one can go hog wild on resources as there must be lots.

Whatever firefox does every few seconds, emacs does constantly.
$ strace dillo
dillo only causes the strace to advance when the mouse is moved --
better than firefox.
Why can't you make emacs like dillo?
Why must emacs loop constantly...

Try this
$ strace emacs -q -nw
note that you will have to kill it from another window, and then do
stty sane.