Re: How to delay until a next increment of time occurs ?

[Barry Scott]

> On 13 Nov 2019, at 22:36, Dietmar Schwertberger <maill...@schwertberger.de> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 13.11.2019 23:20, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> For Windows it may require coding a busy-wait sleep function using the
>> high-performance counter and computing a counter value (modulo?) on which
>> to exit the loop.
> time.perf_counter() is using this on Windows. I'm just worried about floating 
> point limitations on older Python versions.
> 
> From Python 3.7 onwards, there's time.perf_counter_ns(), but even then it 
> would be nice if it was just possible to reset the perf_counter.

Reseting things like timers is often a problem.

What if there are two pieces of code using the value of the perf_counter?
If one use resets the timer then the other user will be broken.

Barry


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dietmar
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