Re: D2005 - Solution to Start up times etc

From: ozbear (ozbear_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:14:05 GMT

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:26:55 +1000, Christopher Burke
<borlandng@craznar.com> wrote:

>Derek Davidson wrote:
>> Christopher Burke wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Seems like a logical statement to me ... something that takes 1
>>>second "doesn't do as much" as something which takes 1 minute.
>>
>>
>> How can it be logical?
>
>You are assuming I meant "... do as much <useful stuff>" - which I did not.
>
>However - I can guarantee that something takes 10 times longer, it has
>done alot more stuff.

Trivially false.

Just include a Sleep(1000000) API call in your splash screen.

Hint to the clueless...sleeping isn't doing anything, it is the
absence of doing something.

Oz 

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