High-resolution thread sleep
Ivan Trombley
itrombley at dot-borg.org
Thu Dec 14 23:45:18 UTC 2017
On Thursday, 14 December 2017 at 21:47:05 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg
wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 December 2017 at 21:11:34 UTC, Ivan Trombley
> wrote:
>> I need to be able to put a thread to sleep for some amount of
>> time. I was looking at using Thread.sleep but it appears that
>> on Windows, it's limited to millisecond resolution. Is there a
>> way to do this in a cross-platform way that is higher
>> resolution?
>
> Sleeping for very short periods is usually a bad idea for
> various reasons. What do you need it for?
>
> If you really need this, go for a loop with a high resolution
> timer.
Something along the lines of this:
while (render)
{
immutable auto startTime = MonoTime.currTime;
// Render the frame...
immutable auto remain = m_frameDuration - (startTime -
MonoTime.currTime);
if (remain > Duration.zero)
Thread.sleep(remain);
}
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