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While Loops

Category: For and While Loops
Description: A simple ’while’ loops that busy-waits until the given time-span has passed
Code:


 using System; 
 using System.Console; 
 using System.Diagnostics;

	def SampleWhileLoop2() 
	{

		def timer = Stopwatch();
		def duration = 8;
		mutable count = 0;
		WriteLine("Waiting...");
		timer.Start();
		// Here's the loop
		while (timer.ElapsedMilliseconds < duration)
		{
			Write(".");
			count++;
		}
		timer.Stop();
		// OK, we're done...
		def span = timer.ElapsedMilliseconds;
		WriteLine($"\nAttempted to busy-wait 8ms, actually waited '$span'");
		WriteLine($"Cycle counts for this time '$count' times.");
		}
         

SampleWhileLoop2()

Execution Result:

Waiting...
.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Attempted to busy-wait 8ms, actually waited 8