Hi Kyle,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Kyle Sluder <kyle.slu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It will put unnecessary burden on the processor,
> and therefore reduce battery life on mobile machines, by doing nothing
> in the runloop until the timer fires.

Whilst it probably is a bad idea to use an NSTimer to solve the
problem described, I don't believe that using it would put any burden
on the processor at all. If there's nothing to do, the thread will
suspend itself; it won't churn CPU cycles waiting for the timer to
fire.

-- Chris
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