Aaron Turner writes:
>
> First since everyone keeps asking: I'm trying to introduce artificial
> delays in my code in order to accurately send packets at a user
> specified rate- generally in the range of a few packets/sec all the
> way to 160,000+p/s which is about where you start running into the
> hardware limits. Code is currently pretty portable: Linux, *BSD,
> Solaris, OS X, Windows/Cygwin and even MIPS based hardware running on
> the international space station or so I've been told.
>
> Considering the basic overhead of processing the packets, sending
> them, etc you start seeing delay times well under 10ms which is where
> traditional sleep methods start becoming unreliable.
One thing to keep in mind about MacOSX is that the sleep
is *really* accurate compared to Linux, BSD and Solaris.
See http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/nanosleep/index.shtml
Drew
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