Hello Paul, What about the assembler pause opcode? I think it is introduced starting pentium 4. You could do the delay loop in asm and insert pause's to decrease the cpu load.
--- Rgds, Wilfried [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html http://www.mestdagh.biz Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 13:41, Paul wrote: > Hi Wilfried , >> But if you use PostMessage to same thread context. and IN your custom >> message handler you do your next operation, then you have a very small >> delay without hanging up the message pump for this thread. > This is a delay of max a few microseconds and it is working this way > already. > Windows is very fast with messages: it can handle about 500.000/s on recent > PC's >> >> If you want to block the program flow then you can also use a close >> loop. But no message will be processed in the same thread context during >> the loop and I don't think that was what you wanted. > This is what I want when the connection speed is too high. > The only problem is that a software loop increases to cpu load to 40 %. > It wouldn't be a problem if only a few messages are sent, but it is with a > continuous stream of very short messages. > It would be great to have a non-cpu-extensive delay for very periods. > That way, a better bandwidth control could be implemented in ICS also. > The current one has been useles so far (for me) because the current timing > period is at least 1000 times too high for me > Paul -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
