http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15809 --- Comment #7 from Lei Zhang <thestig(a)google.com> 2008-11-05 13:38:11 --- Have you used powertop to look at how many extra wakeups running Wine causes? Given Wine causes N wakeups - how much extra energy do you use? Remember, the cpu only account for a percentage of the system's power usage. Even if it's idle - a) it still uses a small amount of power, it's not "shut off". b) video cards/ laptop displays / hard drives / etc still draw power.
From my experiments with powertop, I'd estimate you'll save a couple watts at most on a laptop if you manage to eliminate all the extra wakeups in Wine, which is just enough power to idling your laptop a wee bit longer.
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