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by gsmith2 2391 days ago
It's just a hardware busy wait loop, totally acceptable for its time. Power awareness didn't kick in for a solid decade after this chip was first marketed, and prior to that frequencies were so low strategies like this would have been fine
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Power awareness didn’t kick in until 2014?

There were plenty of people screaming about Intel’s crappy TPD in the 00’s. It’s why Apple introduced their own processors for all iOS devices.