On 8/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Its not really making sense to me why you are adding sleep to this. > Cant I do this as fast as possible? snip
I added sleep for two reasons, to show that it worked and to prevent it from hogging the CPU. With non-blocking IO you program can do what is called a busy wait. Basically the program is doing nothing but waiting for there to be data to read, but it is still consuming %100 of the available CPU time. If you want to see what a busy wait looks like run this: perl -e "1 while 1" A one second sleep is common, but you can sleep for less than a second with usleep from the Time::HiRes* module if this is too slow for your purposes. * http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/Time-HiRes-1.9707/HiRes.pm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
