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in thread a question on threads

If you did the work first and did the sleep after, you wouldn't have slippage induced by the the time it takes to do the work.
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Re^3: a question on threads
by thcsoft (Monk) on May 12, 2005 at 05:09 UTC
    that doesn't matter. i'm afraid. the actions have to be taken nearly every 1 second. so, the tiome, when the thread falls asleep, won't be of any effect - as long as it sleeps for a while as close to a second as possible.

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