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"Steve Aletto" <steve_alettoNOSPAM@THANKShotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I need a sleep function with a finer grain than a millisecond.
> Hardly you'll find it. Windows isn't real-time at all and the best timers
I
> know are multimedia timers. You can have a look at them. Have also a look
at
> GetTickCount, QueryPerformaceCounter and associates.

It's not a timer, just a sleep function, though I suppose I could have a
state machine, but that runs the risk of missing incoming data.  Have to see
how that one would work...

> > The reason is I am porting a Unix application that has the usleep
function
> > which takes an argument in microseconds.
> The argument could be even in microseconds, but is the pause so accurate
as
> well? I wouldn't bet on that.

What the Unix program does wait for some data in one thread and write in
another.  We now need to link it to another piece of hardware and they only
write Windows drivers - hence the port.  The Unix prog works fine, but the
Windoze version is sleeping too long.  Even Sleep(0) takes around 20ms.