Re: Sleep time resolution

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From: Asger J�rgensen
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:33

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Hi Detlef

  In article <402b4f78$1@newsgroups.borland.com>,  Detlef says :

> Hi all,
> I'm using Win2K and like to communicate with a digital IO card with a
> frequence of 200 Hz. I'm using a thread to send data to the card.
> The problem is that windows supports only sleep timeslices of 10/15 ms (
> depending on processor) or Sleep(0).
> If I use Sleep( 0) my process uses a lot of processor time.

if You set down the priority of the thread it shouldn't slow down
the PC.
 
> Is there a way to create events or sleeps with a resolution of  5 milli
> seconds with an accuracy of +/- 1 milli second?

Maybe You can use a TTimer, but if You want it to be very
accurat You have to find one on the net.

Best regards
Asger

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