Giving the CPU a break...

FROM : Buzz Andersen
DATE : Mon Nov 18 20:04:33 2002

This is probably a terribly obvious rookie question, but I'll ask it
any way.  A program I am working on contains a very tight loop that can
often run through many thousands of iterations at a time.  As you might
expect, this is having a tendency to really max out my CPU usage and
make my computer very unresponsive.

My question is: is there a good way for me to give the CPU a break and
make the computer more responsive during this loop without compromising
performance significantly?  I have tried moving my thread priority down
to 0.1, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.  Would NSThread's
sleepUntilDate: methods be what I'm looking for?  If so, how long do
you think I would need to sleep to really alleviate the problem without
compromising performance too much?  Or, alternatively, is there a
better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do (this way seems a little
hacky to me)?

Thanks, as always, for everyone's expertise...

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Buzz Andersen
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