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As I understand the documentation, your loop above does not cause busy-waiting and should not at all consume a lot of CPU time. callAvailable will block and wait for an event to arrive until timeout expires. Internally, callAvailable performs a timed_wait on a condition variable that gets triggered whenever a new callback becomes available.

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