I'm just curious about sleep

[Robin]

I'm just wondering what it would take to write your own function without
using modules or anything that is identical or at least performs identically
to the internal perl function, sleep?
has anyone tried this...etc?
I thought of just doing some heavy operations that don't really do anything
and try to line it up to last seconds in interation, but I don't think this
would be productive or really be the way to do it.
It's just a curiousity.

Thanks.

 

[Paul Lalli]

I'm just wondering what it would take to write your own function without
using modules or anything that is identical or at least performs identically
to the internal perl function, sleep?
has anyone tried this...etc?
I thought of just doing some heavy operations that don't really do anything
and try to line it up to last seconds in interation, but I don't think this
would be productive or really be the way to do it.
It's just a curiousity.

perldoc -f select
(near the bottom)

Paul Lalli

 

[Bryan Castillo]

I'm just wondering what it would take to write your own function without
using modules or anything that is identical or at least performs identically
to the internal perl function, sleep?
has anyone tried this...etc?
I thought of just doing some heavy operations that don't really do anything
and try to line it up to last seconds in interation, but I don't think this
would be productive or really be the way to do it.

Off-topic

I used that technique when I was in high school to create a video game
on a TI-86 graphing calculator. I later found out that the timing
changed as the battery started to loose its charge. (Really, its not
a good idea)