Re: [MacPerl] sleep

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Simon Barnes <barnes@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com> wrote:
>Sleep() in MacPerl seems to do a "busy wait", leaving little or no time 
>for other applications to run.  Would it be feasible for it to give away 
>some CPU time, albeit at the expense of accuracy?

What version of MacPer are you using? sleep() behaviour changed in 5.0.5.

Matthias

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