Re: Why INFINITE loop in a thread occupy so much CPU time??

Perhaps because you asked it to? If you write a computation that consumes all the CPU, it
is going to, guess what, consume all the CPU! And that's what you've written! So
presumably you WANT to consume 100% of the available CPU time.

I have no idea what while(1) means anyway. while(TRUE) makes sense; while(true) makes
sense. What's an integer got to do with it?
joe
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:16:44 -0800 (PST), lostlander <lostlander.tom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a thread:

threadFunc(LPVOID pdata)
{
while(1)......
}

why it takes so much cpu time on windows??
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