[1123] in java-interest
Re: java-interest-digest V1 #120
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael the Bearded)
Sat Aug 19 15:52:51 1995
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:25:37 -0400
To: owner-java-interest@java.sun.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Jim Carroll's message of Fri, 18 Aug 95 14:10:03 EDT
From: mcampbel@schubert.sbi.com (Michael the Bearded)
Reply-To: mcampbel@schubert.sbi.com
In article <199508181810.OAA10310@apollo.carroll.com> Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com> writes:
> > MyFrame=new Frame (MyWServer,true,false,null,300,300,Color.gray);
> > MyFrame.setTitle ("Graphics Test Frame");
> >
> > MyWindow=new Window ( MyFrame,"Center",Color.white,200,200);
> >
> > MyGraphics = new Graphics (MyWindow);
> > MyFrame.map ();
> > for (int c=1;c++<1000;); //wait till frame is setup
>
> I am just coming onboard to Java programming, and have been quietly reading
> the posts. I saw the above piece of code, and stopped dead in my tracks.
>
> What is the purpose of this:
>
> > for (int c=1;c++<1000;); //wait till frame is setup
>
> How can you know how long it takes to loop 1000 times in an architecture
> independant environment?
Exactly.
And couldn't future versions of the compiler optimize this out completely?
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