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Idle Loop Optimized

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-efficient-use-of-clock-time dept.

seebs writes "Every so often someone makes a joke about optimizing the idle loop, but this article actually does it. " It's about time too- that process has been eating up clock cycles for to long.

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  1. My idle loop is already optimized by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I run Gentoo.

  2. Eating them up by Deltaspectre · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's always eating them up, right when I need them too!!! The odd thing is it's always decreasing to fit my needs... where are all my spare cycles?

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  3. hah by Xaggroth · · Score: 2, Funny

    finally.. a real post

  4. Welcome to First Post Day! by sterno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say, I'm curious, are you guys scripting this to post a new article every 5 minutes, or did you find some cheap outsourced labor to pound them out in real time?

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  5. Grammar! by darth_MALL · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Every so often someone makes a joke about optimizing the idle loop, but this article actually does it."

    The article does what? Makes the joke, or optimizes the idle loop?

  6. World's Smallest Slashdot Effect Found by Dynamoo · · Score: 4, Funny
    After a huge run of articles, the world record for the lowest number of hits on a website due to the usually massive Slashdot was recorded.

    The webmaster in question said "yeah, I noticed a couple of extra visitors, but my TRS80-based web server coped just fine.".

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  7. I can do even better.... by popo · · Score: 4, Funny



    Today at work I was in a spectacularly smooth (and remarkably energy efficient) idle-loop.

    Fortunately the loop was terminated automatically at 5pm.

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  8. Yeah, but.... by cmsavage · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...have they implemented multicore support for greater speed and accuracy?

  9. And now for something completely different. . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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    It's divine to own a "dick".
    From the tinyest little "tadger",
    To the world's biggest "prick".
    So three cheers for your "Willy" or "John Thomas",
    Hooray for your "one-eyed trouser snake".
    Your "piece of pork",
    Your "Wife's best friend",
    Your "Percy" or your "cock".
    You can wrap it up in ribbons,
    You can slip it in your sock.
    But don't take it out in public,
    Or they will put you in the dock,
    And you won't come back.

    I thank you!

  10. Where is my TPS report? by neckdeepinspecialsau · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um could you optimize the idle loop? Yeah... that would be great.

  11. Another problem by old_unicorn · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm also worried about the lack of a decent defragmenter for the unused portions of my hard disk....

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