Re: silent PC vs. emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:59:31 -0700
> 
>   >  . The blink-cursor mode uses a timer (that probably explains setitmer
>   >    and SIGALRM)
>   > 
>   >  . select calls are issued when Emacs enters the idle loop
>   > 
>   >  . The rest might be because the blink-cursor mode causes signals,
>   >    which then require various system calls, like select, to be
>   >    restarted
> 
> 
> The same thing happens when blink-cursor-mode is turned off. It is a
> bit less frequent, but still a few times a second.

You mean, you still have setitimer and SIGALRMs, even without
blink-cursor-mode?