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The mark of Windows, "My proudest achievement of Windows XP was fixing the game so it didn’t consume 100% CPU."

• sydthrowaway 5y ago
  How was this accomplished? The original was like while(true); render(); now its like while(true); render(); sleep(); ???
  • airstrike 5y ago
    It's linked to in TFA https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051201-09/?p=33133 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051201-09/?p=33...
    • sydthrowaway 5y ago
      How is the “limiter” implemented?
      • jefftk 5y ago
        He doesn't say, but it was probably just adding call to sleep in the loop.
• deleted 5y ago
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