High-resolution thread sleep

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 12/14/17 6:45 PM, Ivan Trombley wrote:
> 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);
> }
> 

So... you plan on rendering more than 1000 frames per second?

I think in any case, even if the API allows it, you are probably not 
getting much better resolution on your non-windows systems.

Have you tried it anyway and see how it works? I think it might actually 
work just fine.

-Steve