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Re: time waits

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> May 19, 2001
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sleep(nn) will do it.  I've wondered just how much CPU time sleeping takes 
up...Anyone know?

Below is the description.  Good luck!
--Ted

sleep
Syntax: include misc.e
sleep(i)
Description: Suspend execution for i seconds.
Comments: On WIN32 and Linux, the operating system will suspend your 
process and schedule other processes. On DOS32, your program will go into a 
busy loop for i seconds, during which time other processes may run, but 
they will compete with your process for the CPU.
Example:
 puts(1, "Waiting 15 seconds...\n")
sleep(15)
puts(1, "Done.\n")



--On Saturday, May 19, 2001 5:03 PM -0500 Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
> In windoze, is it possible to do something other than this:
>
> time1 = time()
>  --wait 60 seconds
> while time() < time1+60 do end while
>
> to pause 60 seconds? That code is actually using cpu cycles, and i'd
> prefer  to:
>
> pause(60)
>
> and to not use the cpu, and have windoze wake up the program at the
> following line in 60 seconds. I looked in the archives for "pause",
> "wait", and   "delay", but got no matches. Any thoughts? The only thing i
> can come up  with is loop it thru mirc and use mirc's timers. Or is the
> answer buried  somewhere in timer.exw? By the way, it says winmain takes
> two
> arguements, so i argued with it twice, but it won't stop saying that, no
> matter  how much i argue at it. Must i use a winmain window if all i want
> is a timer?
>
> Kat
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