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		tedunangst on Aug 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT develops new tool that can interrupt infinite ... Presumably the user would not activate Jolt in that case. And technically, unless the loop uses polling, it's not an infinite loop because the program isn't even running.

eps on Aug 3, 2011 [–]

Even an event-driven loop needs to cycle now and then to service timers.

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