Your point about hard real-time systems is very good.

Time::Clock uses Time::HiRes. It doesn't really buy anything. Especially since it doesn't offer a sleep function. Time::HiRes also offers a nanosecond sleep function.

If you have access to a high-precision timer, you can use clock_nanosleep to control your timing based on the high precision timer.

It's also worth checking the return value of your sleep-type calls. They tell what the actual sleep time was. That way, if your sleep was interrupted by a signal, or if your sleep ran long for some reason, you will know, and can take appropriate action.


TGI says moo

In reply to Re^2: Serial Port timing and write blocking? by TGI
in thread Serial Port timing and write blocking? by worldsight

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