[squeak-dev] Re: Delay time question

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Feb 28 09:07:48 UTC 2008


Yawn, there has to be a reason why most of the VM maintainers are up  
at midnight, well assuming it's midnight for Igor.
But I'm too tired now, so will respond tomorrow.

On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> John M McIntosh wrote:
>> I can't speak for Windows works but the magic on unix systems  
>> happens in ioRelinquishProcessorForMicroseconds
>
> But none of it contradicts what I said earlier - if platformSleep  
> uses the system's default timer (which it should) then the accuracy  
> of C code will be no better than the accuracy of Squeak. And if it  
> doesn't, well then the code is broken and you should fix it. It sure  
> as hell works on Windows (perhaps I can shame you into fixing it? ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas

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