On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:12 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

Actually that should be:

   Idle handlers are the devil's workshop.
Or maybe:

    The road to hell is paved with good indention.
An idle soul suffers hunger. -- Proverbs 19:15b

Solomon meant by this, do doubt, that stacks that use idle heavily tend to consume CPU cycles and get sluggish.

BTW, if a more timely refresh is needed in a clock or other GUI display, the more repetitive send-cycle handler can check whether the data has changed and only update the control only if it has.

Dar Scott

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