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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> Let me comment on this again, having spent a couple of minutes
> more thinking about it.  Would you be happy paying 1% of your
> battery life to get 80% less sluggish response after a memory
> pig exits?

Just to pull a few random numbers out of my ass too,
how about 50% of battery life for the same optimistic
80% less sluggishness ?

How about if it were only 30% of battery life?

Rik
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