On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:26:33 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:34:29 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

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I fail to see why even a very complex program takes a long time to stop doing things. Stopping something takes no time at all.

My car's brakes are not that good. How about yours?

Since when did a computer program have physical momentum? It's more like you're sat on the sofa reading a book, and your wife tells you to stop as dinner is ready. You really don't have to finish the current chapter.

A complex program may rely on certain conditions and while
shutting down may do work to keep these conditions true. Files may be
indexed, data may have to be saved, etc.

Except they weren't, I'm talking about programs where the game/file is already saved.