That's very interesting. With your functions are you able to determine the optimum performance wait time? And if so, is it platform independent? This information is really necessary to get published if people are making platform independent scripts.
Paul Tretter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladislav Mecir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 2:59 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: forever loops and cpu usage > > Paul Tretter napsal(a): > > >On WinXP here I can get as precise as .001 on the wait time. However, it > >appears that anything less than that storms the cpu back up to 99 percent. > >I suppose that .001 is the lowest number that the wait function can support. > >I'm curious why you arrived at .002. Was it the balance point for windows > >and linux. I would like others to report on what OS they use and report > >their findings. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? > > > > > I have got a timing function working as follows: > > tick-time: time-tick 0.1 ; == 1.00000000002183E-2 > > , which computes the internal system timer resolution, 0.1 is an > argument asking for 10% relative error at most. > > Other results: > > >> time-block [wait 0.02] 0,05 > == 2.00312500001019E-2 > >> time-block [wait 0.01] 0,05 > == 1.00156250000509E-2 > >> time-block [wait 0.005] 0,05 > == 1.00156250000509E-2 > >> time-block [wait 0.002] 0,05 > == 1.00156249998236E-2 > >> time-block [wait 0.001] 0,05 > == 1.00117187499791E-2 > > look like showing, that all below the system timer resolution are > "rounded up" to the system timer. > > OTOH, times below 0.001 exhibit this: > > >> time-block [wait 0.00099] 0,05 > == 4.85229492186434E-6 > > -L > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 2/3/2004 -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
