Some processors will die of heat exhaustion if you do that, especially
if cooling in a case is marginal. I had i960RPs fail that way. I was
able to get 5-10C temperature difference just by putting the halt to
good use. (The i960RD runs much cooler, but still...)
A tight loop that lives entirely in the pipeline is especially evil
(in general) because the processor is at its fastest, is not waiting
for anything, and just causes a lot of switching. I was able to tell
the nature of a loop just by touching the processor chip:-)
Halts are good.
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