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		oh_sigh on Feb 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) This sounds like a Coding Horror story that is entirely made up. Using a timer made your code go from 5 to 8 minutes?

diplomatpuppy on Feb 4, 2018 [–]

We had only 16 Megs of RAM. I think it had put chunks of the query process to virtual memory to deal with the 'on timer' stuff in the GUI process.

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