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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. 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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  3. 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?

  4. 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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  5. 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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