On 11/26/02 11:43 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
:) What a good chuckle. These are great. In the same vein, there is an explanation of cpu hogging here: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.
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/polling.html
While the article focuses primarily on repeat loops and mouse polling, the concept is similar for idle handlers. Using "send" is a much better solution. Also, the quote that Andu referred to may be the one in this article.
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