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Re: Question of throttling CPU usage

From Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject Re: Question of throttling CPU usage
Date 2012-04-26 14:27 +0100
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:59:47 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

> The tricky part of that is "do nothing". The C standard doesn't provide
> any mechanism for doing that; you'll have to find  a method specific to
> your operating system for doing it. That's what sleep() is for;
> presumably there's a Windows equivalent - it might even be called
> sleep(), for all I know.

Actually, it's called Sleep() (with an upper-case S); the argument is in
milliseconds (as opposed to seconds for the Unix version).

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Question of throttling CPU usage jon.harding@gmx.co.uk - 2012-04-25 11:22 -0700
  Re: Question of throttling CPU usage James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-04-25 14:44 -0400
    Re: Question of throttling CPU usage jon.harding@gmx.co.uk - 2012-04-25 12:35 -0700
      Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-04-25 21:39 +0200
      Re: Question of throttling CPU usage James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-04-25 15:59 -0400
        Re: Question of throttling CPU usage jon.harding@gmx.co.uk - 2012-04-25 15:33 -0700
          Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-26 10:37 +1200
            Re: Question of throttling CPU usage jon.harding@gmx.co.uk - 2012-04-26 01:41 -0700
              Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-26 04:25 -0500
              Re: Question of throttling CPU usage James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-04-26 06:59 -0400
                Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-05-27 23:35 -0500
              Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-04-26 14:33 +0100
                Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 07:44 -0700
                Re: Question of throttling CPU usage James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-04-26 11:45 -0400
        Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-04-26 14:27 +0100
      Re: Question of throttling CPU usage tom st denis <tom@iahu.ca> - 2012-04-26 12:01 -0700
      Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-05-27 23:19 -0500
    Re: Question of throttling CPU usage Lanarcam <lanarcam1@yahoo.fr> - 2012-04-25 21:39 +0200

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