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		sunjester on Jan 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet P... The mark of Windows, "My proudest achievement of Windows XP was fixing the game so it didn’t consume 100% CPU."

sydthrowaway on Jan 9, 2022 | [–]

How was this accomplished?

The original was like

while(true); render();

now its like

while(true); render(); sleep(); ???

airstrike on Jan 10, 2022 | [–]

It's linked to in TFA

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051201-09/?p=33...

sydthrowaway on Jan 10, 2022 | | [–]

How is the “limiter” implemented?

jefftk on Jan 10, 2022 | | [–]

He doesn't say, but it was probably just adding call to sleep in the loop.

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