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c++ - What is a busy loop?

Can it be a loop with or without statements?

while (1)
{
   //Empty
}

OR

int i = 0;

while (1)
{
   i++;
}
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A "busy loop" or more commonly "busy wait" is an active polling where the application is waiting on some event to occur and continuously checks for it. Typically this includes a timed sleep or other task which gives up CPU time so that another process can provide the expected input.

Contrast this with a callback. While waiting on a callback, the program consumes no CPU cycles. Typically the program will "register" a callback routine which some monitoring application invokes based on some event.

The distinction is that the program in a busy-loop consumes CPU and time slices while waiting while the callback mechanism allows a program to consume no (or almost no) CPU while waiting.


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