in reply to How to pause 10ms in perl

According to perldoc -f sleep:

For delays of finer granularity than one second, you may use
Perl's "syscall" interface to access setitimer(2) if your sys-
tem supports it, or else see "select" above. The Time::HiRes
module (from CPAN, and starting from Perl 5.8 part of the stan-
dard distribution) may also help.


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