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Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Fri Dec 2 22:08:35 PST 2011


"Somedude" <lovelydear at mailmetrash.com> wrote in message 
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> Le 02/12/2011 23:44, Nick Sabalausky a écrit :
>> "Somedude" <lovelydear at mailmetrash.com> wrote in message
>> news:jbbk0c$2ug3$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Le 02/12/2011 23:27, Timon Gehr a écrit :
>>>> On 12/02/2011 10:50 PM, Somedude wrote:
>>>>> Le 02/12/2011 22:44, Timon Gehr a écrit :
>>>>>> It feels like 5 minutes if you are accustomed to open the text editor
>>>>>> and start working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I am sure there is something to IDE's, as many programmers seem 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> like them.
>>>>>
>>>>> The thing is, when you work in Java, you need 2Gb of RAM to be
>>>>> comfortable. Then you simply never close your IDE, so that's really 
>>>>> not
>>>>> an issue at all (we don't turn off the PC at work).
>>>>
>>>> So you waste even more energy? How is that not an issue?
>>>
>>> Even with a simple text editor, I wouldn't turn it off, because I don't
>>> feel like having to reopen every single window that was open the day
>>> before each morning. At best, I would put it in "hibernate" mode (or
>>> whatever that's called), i.e the RAM is still alive while the rest of
>>> the computer is off, so I don't have to reboot. That's what I usually do
>>> at home.
>>> I know it's not a very good habit, yet I am one of the most conscious at
>>> work. Some others don't even bother to turn off the screen.
>>
>> Hibernate saves the RAM (and presumably other hardware state) to HDD and
>> then turns the machine entirely off, RAM and all. Then, when you turn it
>> back on, it just restores it all from the disk, which is much faster than
>> letting everything go through the usual startup routines. It is pretty
>> nifty. I don't use it personally because I've had problems with it 
>> (possibly
>> b/c I'm on XP), but it is pretty clever.
>>
>>
> I'm on XP SP3 too and it works.
>
> Maybe it's not Hibernate I use because it doesn't save on disk: it's
> much faster than writing (or reading) 2 Gb on disk, and if I unplug, I
> need to reboot and it says that there windows wasn't turned off
> properly. I'm pretty certain the RAM is still on, and the rest of the
> computer is off. When I turn it on, it's ready in matters of 2 or 3 
> seconds.

That's just sleep mode then.




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