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#21 ChunLing

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 11:29 PM

Well, the reason they imposed a cooldown is because rebooting is pretty expensive, relatively speaking. So programs that used rebooting as a "easy" way to loop themselves were being laggy and evil to the rest of the world's computers.

#22 theoriginalbit

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 11:50 PM

View PostChunLing, on 21 January 2013 - 11:29 PM, said:

Well, the reason they imposed a cooldown is because rebooting is pretty expensive, relatively speaking. So programs that used rebooting as a "easy" way to loop themselves were being laggy and evil to the rest of the world's computers.
Which in itself really is a reason not too do it...

#23 ChunLing

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Posted 22 January 2013 - 08:24 AM

Or was, anyway. Now the reason is the cooldown, which is long enough to obviate the expense of a reboot to the overall CC computer capacity (and discourage using reboot just to infinite loop a program rather than when you actually want to reboot). There are certainly better ways to simply exit a program if you have no need to reload everything, but reboot is no longer evil...it's just slow.





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