>I also get 10 as an answer, which indicates that the primitive does not
>work properly for small numbers.
>
>Did anyone run into the same problem and what do you suggest to fix
>this?
>
>Cheers,
>Nathanael
>
>BTW: I'm using VM 3.1 alpha build 6 (May 17, 2002)


This was a discussion item back in March of this year.
I thought windows gave good numbers? Andreas told me that he triggers 
a look for checkForInterrupts every 1ms? by fiddling with the 
interruptCheckCounter on each ms clock pulse?

The 3.2.7b6 macintosh VM under os-x 10.1.5 gives with this code

| bag time |
bag := Bag new.
time := Time millisecondClockValue.
1 to: 1000 do:[:i|
	[Time millisecondClockValue = time] whileTrue.
	bag add: (Time millisecondClockValue - time).
	time := Time millisecondClockValue.
].
bag sortedCounts

a SortedCollection(996->1 2->2 1->4 1->11)


Try it and report your numbers, others are welcome to try too.

As background there are issues with

ProcessorScheduler>>relinquishProcessorForMicroseconds:

see my notes on this " [ENH] relinquishProcessorForMicroseconds:"
from May 6th 2002.

I submitted a change to have the mac and I'd guess the unix like 
operating system to do the checkForInterrupts every 3 ms versus 5ms.


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