Comment by Legend2440

>At infinite cycles, without new input, you'll end up with a locked state or oscillations.

I don't think that's true; there are computations that take infinite steps but never converge or repeat, like the mandelbrot set.

Looping for millions or billions of steps is absolutely normal in traditional algorithms. We know from complexity theory that some computations require a minimum number of steps. More depth is just more room for computation.