On 5/3/04 12:20 AM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Would you even need the delay? An empty repeat loop should work just as
>> well, and no delay needed.
> 
> Because an empty repeat loop thrashes the processor and hogs the system
> until it empties. The 1 second delay is a lot kinder to other processes.

True, barely, back in OS 8. It actually never took up much of the system,
and takes less now. I wouldn't worry about it. Well, maybe it would be
interesting to test it out...

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