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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 ZoomRect Speedup patch
Keywords: ResEdit patch ZoomRect
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.214109.6395@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 21:41:09 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.180210.24253@nntp.hut.fi> jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
>I would have thought that _Delay is mostly obsolete now that MultiFinder
>exists. Calling delay is like intentionally making the computer slower.
>Instead, you should always try to use _WaitNextEvent. Of course, in some
>cases WaitNextEvent might not return quite as soon as you wanted, but at
>least some work got done instead of an idle loop.

Yes, but once the Mac OS goes preemptive (which it eventually will) _Delay
will very likely become the way to sleep your task.  Perhaps we shouldn't
be too hasty.

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