Re: [Chicken-users] thread-sleep! for less than a second

[Kon Lovett]

On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:36 PM, minh thu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Question again, my apologies ;)
>
> Is it possible to have a thread sleep some milliseconds ?

thread-sleep! (the seconds do not need to be a whole number)

> I want to have a thread poll xlib for some events but not in tight
> loop neither only every second (thus something in between). I guess
> also than thread-yield! gives cpu to other threads but still makes a
> tight loop in case the other threads want to sleep!
>
> I can't use c sleeping function, otherwise the whole chicken runtime
> will go to bed.
>
> Is there any workaround ? Maybe I can add the feature to chicken  
> itself ?
>
> Thanks,
> thu
>
>
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