Time display

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/26/02 11:43 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
> 
> 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.

:) What a good chuckle. These are great. In the same vein, there is an 
explanation of cpu hogging here:

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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