[squeak-dev] Re: Delay time question

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 08:19:03 UTC 2008


2008/2/28 Robert F. Scheer <rfscheer at speakeasy.net>:
> I forgot to be very clear about this in the last post, there is one main
>  reason why C would have no trouble keeping these loops all serviced.
>
>  The reads would block.  While waiting for the first byte of a packet to
>  come in for the next cycle, no processing cycles would be consumed.  No
>  delays inside loops would be needed.
>
Doesn't plugins for working with serial port(s) provide you a schemes
where you can use
semaphores? So , you can block a process until some data available.
>  - Robert
>
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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