We could spawn a new thread for each piece of data produced, but this would waste a lot of processor time starting and stopping threads.

可为所产生的每个数据片段生成一个新线程，但这会将大量处理器时间浪费在启动和停止线程上。

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Rather than waste good processor cycles waiting around for data to transmit, your code can instead have a second buffer waiting to process.

不要浪费宝贵的处理器周期来等待数据传输。

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The hormone, MPA, could have been in glucose syrup sold by the bankrupt sugar waste processor Bioland, based in Belgium.

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Such branches can cause a processor to waste valuable time dealing with the ancillary book-keeping that comes with every branch.

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The time-share operator would queue up an assortment of customers so that not a second of processor time went to waste.

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