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Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and "make room for textout to textarea"

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Julio Di Egidio:

> On Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:35:06 UTC+1, Arno Welzel  wrote:
>> John G Harris fantasised:
> <snip>
>>> That is, a forever loop is guaranteed to be paused from time to time
>>> without that being requested by the thread code.
>>
>> No, a forever loop will block the current thread and a JavaScript
>> executes a script in the browser only in one single thread.
> 
> JS executes in one thread everywhere (Node, JS.NET, etc.), not just
> in the browser: event-driven is its very *runtime model*.

So what? I did say that is is *only* in a browser this way.

> That said, an infinite loop without async calls or at last some sleep
> is a CPU-choking nonsense in any language...

Except when you need to get things done and CPU usage is less important
than the time needed to finish a job.


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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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boolean while loops "how to stop" and  "make room for textout to textarea" Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2020-10-31 03:44 -0700
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      Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and  "make room for textout to textarea" Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2020-10-31 09:48 -0700
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        Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and "make room for textout to textarea" Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-10-31 18:49 +0100
          Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and "make room for textout to textarea" Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2020-10-31 11:07 -0700
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      Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and "make room for textout to textarea" Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-10-31 18:52 +0100
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                Re: boolean while loops "how to stop" and "make room for textout to textarea" Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-11-03 18:34 +0100
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