This question about Timers for windows services got me thinking:
Say I have (and I do) a windows service thats waiting on a WaitHandle and when woken, it dives into a wait-spin like I have shown below in a flowchart
wait spin diagram http://www.86th.org/waitspin.jpg
I'm curious if using a timer would be better than a wait-spin loop (sometimes called a spin-wait). I'll be honest, I've never used timers for anything other than my own tinkering.
I don't have any plans to switch unless the differences are profound and the benefits of using a Timer are amazing. However, I'm very interested on peoples thoughts on one vs the other for future development of this project.
Let me know if this should be a wiki