Re: Sleep( ) differences in Win98 and WinXP?

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:37

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Nicholas Gessler wrote:

>It can't resolve below about 10 milliseconds.  I have settled 
>on using Canvas->Pixels[][] as a way to slow things down.  
>This is a kludgy quick fix but works well and the optimizer
>doesn't try to correct it.

Note that _any_ such "code-loop timing" trick will work incorrectly on
someone elses computer, if their computer is either slower or faster
or has more or fewer precesses running than yours.

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