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Re: Finegrain Sleep

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From: Benjamin Pratt
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:08
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> DWORD t = GetTickCount();
> while ((GetTickCount() - t) < 0.02);

GetTickCount() has a resolution of 10 or 15ms depending on windows version.
I this the poster needs something in the microsecond range.

GetSystemTimeAsFileTime() has a resolution of 100-nanoseconds
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