do i save some time when having a timestamp and only ask the operation isCancelled every 50 msec?
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do i save some time when having a timestamp and only ask the operation isCancelled every 50 msec?
isCancelledis a pretty simpleBOOLflag, so checking it on each iteration of even a very tight loop doesn’t incur a real performance penalty. I think you’ll find the overhead of setting up a mechanism to checkisCancelledperiodically will actually perform worse.