On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:48:08AM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > for ($x = 0; $i <= 5000; $x++) {}
>
> A good compiler will optimize that right out of existence. :-)
Yep, but I suppose that's not going to be the case with perl.
A much better construct is to use sleep() or usleep() to actually wait
for a processor and compiler independent amount of time.
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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