For polling?! Use an explicit timer rather than the nebulus "once per slice". Especially if after giving up your slice (there's an undocumented way to do it in Win32) you are immediatly run again as being the highest priority thread waiting!

I think Perl 6 will allow decimal seconds in the sleep command, so you can say e.g. sleep(0.01);.

In Win32, I'd never write such a loop anyway. I have Winsock post a message when activity occurs (ready to read, ready to write, etc) on a socket, and that is handled along with the GUI messages.

So what you really want is a standard Perl syntax for having socket activity trigger a callback dispatch, and that mechanism can be implemented in whatever way is nice and efficient on each platform.

—John

In reply to Re: Re: Re: I want to forfeit my timeshare by John M. Dlugosz
in thread I want to forfeit my timeshare by jepri

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