On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:27:49PM +0000, Nick D wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to do some timing code - for some basic kind of sequencing.. > Since ive not written this kind of stuff before, i'm unsure as to the best approach >for accurate timing. > > I've played around with using signals for this - with setitimer(..) and then >catching the signal, but it doesnt look too good - it can be 1000s of usecs out.. > What approaches have people used, and how successful were they?
last time i tried this sort of thing (way back when), i used the real-time timer set at a higher resolution (1KHz) and then just spun in a loop reading it until the next event. on the downside it was ugly. on the upside it was quite stable, even under load. rob ---- Robert Melby Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt4255a Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]