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radical energy s/safing/saving/ = low power usage
undervolt, disable cores, default scaling governor to power save, aggressive sleep, hybrid sleep and so forth
Decreasing peak speed generally makes tasks take longer, which means a worse duty cycle.
Finish fast and go to deepest sleep possible is the most energy efficient strategy for (embedded) computing in general.