How to sleep accurately

[BCS]

Reply to Jason,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> if you are on x86 and if you can get the clock speed and if you don't
>> mind asm you can get a clock cycle resolution busy wait using:
>> 
> I'm trying to stay as cross platform as possible.  It's currently used
> on x86 and mac.  I'm discovering that gettimeofday is not available on
> the mac.  I still have to find another solution.
> 

well if you are using x86 mac you would be potable and PPC has a similar 
CPU clock counter. But you would still need something else for any other 
system.