2008/2/28 John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>:
> os-x carbon
>   a SortedCollection(830->10 149->11 13->1 6->12 1->13 1->14)
>
>  well but it depends on the unix code to do things and that's a bit
>  fuzzy at time, mind Andreas example below led to many sleepless
>  hours...  If you peek at the mac code it did at one time do this which
>  gave 99.9% accuracy.
>

>      err = pthread_mutex_lock(&gSleepLock);
>      err =
>  pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np
>  (&gSleepLockCondition,&gSleepLock,&tspec);
>      err = pthread_mutex_unlock(&gSleepLock);
>
>  But then someone reported dropped socket accepts because the
>  pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np would fail to service the
>  Socket requests and I had to revert to Ian's unix code, which on os-x
>  is less accurate but better than some unix machines.
>
I hope if you add my sleepless hours i spent making delays for hydra,
you can come out with
better results. :)


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.