[Info-vax] yet another sys$qiow question

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-08-19 23:45:21 +0000, John Reagan said:

> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 7:37:14 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
>> 
>> In this case, I'm going to observe that it's poor coding practice.  Why 
>> would  you tie up the CPU in a loop?  Wouldn't that have an adverse 
>> affect on all users?
> 
> You wouldn't do this in practice.  You'd use $WAITFR and $SYNCH.

Or an AST, of course.    Or multithreading in C11, or some other 
language environment that supports such.  Maybe Rust, on x86-64, 
if/when VMS gets there.

<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf>
<http://blog.smartbear.com/codereviewer/c11-a-new-c-standard-aiming-at-safer-programming/> 

<https://www.rust-lang.org>



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