John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Ahhh. Was this an intel PC running Windows?
> 
> I'm sure Andreas told me he has a timer that resets  
> interruptCheckCounter to zero
> every millisecond. Perhaps he could confirm that? That would distort  
> things a bit if the call target
> is 2ms.  Mind doing this 1000 times a second to give great Delay  
> accuracy numbers seems wasteful, but
> Intel PC are so fast today, do we care?

I think once per millisecond sounds about right.  It would be great if
simple VM's can stay simple.  I bet the overhead can be gotten rid of,
and besides, if you hyper-optimize a VM then you can also #define away
this function into nothing, can't you?


-Lex