Barry Brevik wrote:
> Re: Active Perl 5.8.8 running on Windows.
>
> Back when I was doing some Assembly language programming, there was a
> system call to "yield" to the Windows operating system, in other words,
> give up the rest of your time slice.
>
> Is there a way to do this with Perl? I'm writing an app that
> continuously loops waiting for something to do, and it would be good to
> give control back to the OS when idle. There is Win32::GUI::DoEvents(),
> but I am unsure if this really does the same thing.
>
how about sleep ... or usleep (provided by Time::HiRes) ?
-Mike
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