Does the screen saver interrupt the Migration Assistant?

I am performing a migration from my MacBook Pro to a new MacBook Air. The "time to complete" varies by several hours when the screen has gone dark. Is this variation normal? Does the screen saver interrupt the file transfer process?

Thank you, that helps. I also found in the "tips and tricks" item on the Apple website that changing the sleep setting in System Preferences to "never" for the computer that is being migrated from. That is actually kind of obvious, but I would have expected to be prompted to do that. Even though I have owned Macs for a long time (I still have my Mac Plus out in the garage), it didn't occur to me to do that. Migration is not a process that is used often, so a more step-by-step approach would (IMHO) be more in keeping with Apple's reputation for ease of use.
I ended up quitting the migration, setting both computers to not sleep and started over. The "time to complete" now makes sense, the progress bar is slowly marching along and all seems to be right with the world. And I will not break out my stopwatch when we get to "less than a minute remaining".
Thanks again.

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