Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Still, since no other API is available, there's not much I can do 
>>> about it. (Other than whinge at the developers and see if it gets 
>>> fixed in the next release of the library...)
>>
>> No, you do your processing, then you look at the highest resolution 
>> clock you have and figure out how much *longer* you have to wait, then 
>> you wait. Adjusting for the length of time it takes to figure out how 
>> much longer you have to wait.
> 
> Except that figuring out how long you need to wait would *itself* take 
> time...

You missed the second sentence of the two-sentence paragraph, didn't you?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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