Re: [MacPerl] Intentional Infinite Loops

["Ken Williams" <ken@forum.swarthmore.edu>]

diberri@ucla.edu (David J. Iberri) wrote:
>How safe/unsafe is it to have a script running in an infinite loop in
>the background? How significantly will it affect my performance if it's
>only something like the following?
>
>while(1) {
>    ... # some absurd (but curiously magical) code
>    last if $finished;
>}

That's a perfectly valid idiom.  It won't consume any more resources
than it looks like it will.  It's especially nonproblematic if it sleeps
for a while in the loop, or waits for something else to finish, or
whatever.


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