Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:41:14 +0000
> 
> >> I think display-battery-mode users (I am one such user) will not agree
> >> with that assessment.
> >
> > I didn't invent that, I've heard laptop users complain about timers.
> 
> For my education: why timer are computational expensive?

They are not, at least not normally.  But they interfere with the OS's
attempts to conserve power, because Emacs is not idle, as far as the
OS is concerned -- it runs some stuff once every so-and-so seconds.