Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Interesting comment:
>>
>>   "I wouldn't mind a 2X drop in speed if it means the code is shorter 
>> and easier to read."
>>
>> I wonder how many program users also wouldn't mind?
> 
> Big smoking "sigh".
> 
> Skype has been running here for around a week, and it used 1 hour of CPU 
> time. Just being idle showing its tray icon, I haven't made any call.

It might conceivably need to send heartbeat messages over the network or 
something to maintain presence information. There are 168 hours in a 
week, so it still represents only 0.59% CPU time...

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