Re: How would you code an infinite RPG loop - Was 1 <> 1 is true???

Buck,

If your no-op loop is waiting on a data queue (i.e. it contains a call to
QRCVDTAQ with the WAIT parameter set to -1) then the program will stop at
the QRCVDTAQ call and it won't consume any CPU cycles anyway - it just goes
to DEQW (dequeue-wait) status and won't fo anything until a data queue entry
is added to the data queue

Buck wrote:
> Running a no-op loop to consume cycles will get you a 'doesn't play nice
> with others' grade, since this code will rapidly be consuming processor
> cycles that other jobs will want.  DLYJOB, or one of the C wait()
> functions will in essence set a timer and go to sleep, consuming no
> processor cycles until the timer goes off.

In other words, this code consumes (practically) no CPU:

Wait = -1; // Wait forever for a data queue entry to appear
dow 1=1;
 qrcvdtaq( parameters including Wait );
 if DataLen > 0;
   exsr ProcessDataQueue;
 endif;
enddo;

Rory