It's just a hardware busy wait loop, totally acceptable for its time. Power awareness didn't kick in for a solid decade after this chip was first marketed, and prior to that frequencies were so low strategies like this would have been fine
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The parent comment explicitly made this distinction
Is it perhaps just some kind of announcement of a capability to foreign countries?
PHP security has improved markedly over time (especially app security, not just the runtime), but it's still.. well.. stuff like this. This time around I'm lucky that the sole app I run was using Apache