For the More Curious: NSRunLoop
NSRunLoop is an object that waits. It waits for events to arrive and then forwards them to NSApplication. It waits for timer events to arrive and then forwards them to NSTimer. You can even attach a network socket to the run loop, and it will wait for data to arrive on that socket.
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