[BUG]Delays and relinquishProcessor interact badly

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Aug 18 03:23:06 UTC 2000


"Raab, Andreas" <Andreas.Raab at disney.com> is widely believed to have written:

> > If you are expecting a Delay to finish in say 300 ms, and the 
> > idle loop gets to run (you're waiting on a Delay after all) then
> > the rP prim will (attempt to) wait 1000ms.
> 
> The argument to ioRelinquishProcessorBlabla is *micro* seconds. So you'll
> wait for 1 *milli* second.
>
Hardly changes my point that they should work together. Just makes it a
little less of a problem in practice. 

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