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Re: sleep() for half a sec?

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Feb 17, 2015
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It looks like you're using the legacy include files.

In Euphoria 3.1, sleep() was defined in misc.e.

-- from misc.e 
global procedure sleep(integer t) 
-- go to sleep for t seconds 
-- allowing (on WIN32 and Linux) other processes to run 
    if t >= 0 then 
        machine_proc(M_SLEEP, t) 
    end if 
end procedure 

But starting with Euphoria 4.0, sleep() was defined in std/os.e.

-- from std/os.e 
public procedure sleep(atom t) 
-- go to sleep for t seconds 
-- allowing other processes to run 
	if t >= 0 then 
		machine_proc(M_SLEEP, t) 
	end if 
end procedure 

Both methods do call the same internal machine function, which is why your trick worked.

Further testing indicates that sleep() in Euphoria 4.0 does provide sub-second resolution.

include misc.e as misc 
include std/os.e as os 
 
atom t0, t1, t2 
 
t0 = time() 
misc:sleep( 1 ) 
t1 = time() - t0 
 
t0 = time() 
os:sleep( 0.1 ) 
t2 = time() - t0 
 
printf( 1, "misc:sleep(1) = %0.1f sec\n", {t1} ) 
printf( 1, "os:sleep(0.1) = %0.1f sec\n", {t2} ) 

misc:sleep(1) = 1.0 sec 
os:sleep(0.1) = 0.1 sec 

In short, make sure you are using the Euphoria 4.0 standard library routines in the std include directory.

-Greg