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by f1shy 240 days ago
I’ve read it, and I found nothing to justify that piece of code. Can you please explain?
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The while loop surrounds the whole thread, which does multiple tasks. The conditional is there to surround some work completing in a reasonable time. That's how I understood, at least.
Does not seem so clear to me. If so it could be stated with more pseudo code. Also the eventual need for multiple exit points…