> On 12 jul 2006, at 11:25, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > I doubt it. Note that it also probably needs enhancing of the > > threadinterface with a giveuptimeslice functionality, something for > > which > > now sleep(0) is abused. > > sleep(0) is quite bad, because it may not necessarily give up any > timeslice. At least very short nanosleeps seem to be implemented as > spinning loops on Mac OS X, so maybe sleep(0) is the same.
Do you know a correct way of doing this on *nix? (it is a hack nevertheless, but a much used one in Delphi code because Windows guarantees it, the better uses are to emulate blocking I/O, the worse parts for uh, everything, including updating time on a form) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
