Set command to run for a certain amount of time

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Set command to run for a certain amount of time

09-02-2012, 16:53

Patrick Chiang Patrick Chiang is offline

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Re: Set command to run for a certain amount of time

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Originally Posted by Ether

this is called "busy waiting" or "spinning" and it chews up CPU time.

not the best way to do things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_waiting

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...=rep1&type=pdf

Eh. I did say it was not big and fancy right?

Well, he could put that in its own thread implementation, but they are first year programmers after all...

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