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Re: high accuracy timing options?

Subject: Re: high accuracy timing options?
From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:31:32 +0100
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On 27 Mar 2008, at 22:25, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

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

And also that this is mainly because for very small delays, Darwin lets the "waiting" thread simply burn cpu cycles until the delay is over (at least when I looked into this a couple of years ago). The result is that very small delays are (were) quite inefficient from a multi-processing perspective on Darwin (with the mentioned upshot that they're pretty accurate).


Jonas
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