Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: help with threadDelay

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:57:52AM +, Neil Davies wrote: > > In order to get low jitter you have to deliberately wake up early and > spin - hey what are all these extra cores for! - knowing the > quantisation of the RTS is useful in calibration loop for how much to > wake up early. Ah, I see.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: help with threadDelay

2006-11-29 Thread Neil Davies
On 29/11/06, Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:37:05PM +, Neil Davies wrote: > Ian/Simon(s) Thanks - looking forward to the fix. I've now pushed it to the HEAD. Thanks - I'll pull it down and give it a try. > It will help with the real time enviroment that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: help with threadDelay

2006-11-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:37:05PM +, Neil Davies wrote: > Ian/Simon(s) Thanks - looking forward to the fix. I've now pushed it to the HEAD. > It will help with the real time enviroment that I've got. Lazy evaluation and GHC's garbage collector will probably cause headaches if you want true

[Haskell-cafe] Re: help with threadDelay

2006-11-22 Thread Neil Davies
Ian/Simon(s) Thanks - looking forward to the fix. It will help with the real time enviroment that I've got. Follow on query: Is there a way of seeing the value of this interval from within the Haskell program? Helps in the calibration loop. Neil ___ H

[Haskell-cafe] Re: help with threadDelay

2006-11-22 Thread Simon Marlow
Ian Lynagh wrote: [moving to glasgow-haskell-bugs] On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:40:12PM +, Neil Davies wrote: however when -threaded is used you get some interesting effects, including returning too early: Tgt/Actual = 0.000125/0.34s, diff = -0.91s Thanks for the report; I can re