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| Aug 29, 2013 at 19:41 | comment | added | Chris | Well, ignoring the fact that not every task is CPU-bound, there is always an arms race between hardware and software. That's no less true today than yesterday, and I don't think the busy cursor will ever be entirely irrelevant. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 19:05 | comment | added | Renat Gilmanov | I was close to start writing the same. @Chris, try to do everything asynchronously and provide a simple way to see the progress. Nowadays with so many cores every CPU has it is almost a crime to show busy cursor or block a user in any other way. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 17:28 | history | answered | Brian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |