Hi -
Check out Time::HiRes - has alarms, high res.
Works fine on *nix boxes, but alarms don't work
on Win32
Aloha => Beau.
-Original Message-
From: Greg Oliver [mailto:greg@;algx.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: time references
I am writing
How about:
while (1) {
my $start = time;
# do what you need to do...
my $end = 5 - (time - $start);
sleep $end if $end > 0;
}
James
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 07:52 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
I am writing a program that will do a certain function every 5
seconds. Currently, I am test
Beautiful! Cuts the CPU from 100% to nil for that second that was chewing the time -
I would have never thought of it though. Pretty new to programming and don't have the
full mindset yet.
Thanks,
Greg
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:13:57 -0500
James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How
