Monday, May 24, 2010

Can a unconditional loop of C program harm my processor???

Can never end(continious) program of C program harm my processor or any part of my PC or LAPTOP?????

Can a unconditional loop of C program harm my processor???
If you let it run long enough yes it could, but if you stop it fairly soon, such as shorter than 10-20 minutes it shouldn't do any harm to the system.
Reply:Not if the computer has been properly designed to be able to cool the cpu under worst case conditions.





You may want to have your program sleep for a few microseconds between loops to reduce the percentage of cpu usage.
Reply:No, not normally, although if it included two disk functions that slammed the drive head back and forth (instead of repeatedly addressing a buffer) it would wear on the machine eventually. Otherwise you are just slamming electrons back and forth and running down the battery.


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