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[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
:In article <1991May8.194940.13610 at watson.ibm.com> metzger at watson.ibm.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
:> >|> > 		for (i = 0; i < delay; i++)
:> >|> > 			;
:> Really, there is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for busy waiting on a
:> timesharing system.
:
:There would be if you had a really, really smart compiler that detected
:loops of the above form, timed 100 runs to see how long each loop took,
:and stuck in an appropriate usleep() or select() or nap() or poll() for
:that machine. :-)

Really smart compilers optimize the whole loop away anyway. :-(

--tom
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