[BUG]Delays and relinquishProcessor interact badly

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Aug 18 04:14:35 UTC 2000


on 8/17/00 8:08 PM, Raab, Andreas at Andreas.Raab at disney.com wrote:

> Tim,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> - Andreas
> 

Of course on the macintosh ioRelinquishProcessor just polls to the OS, but
to complicate things this polling only occurs 30 times a second, and if a
poll occurs you could lose control for say 100ms, or < 1 ms.


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