iOS: Wait Time less than 1 millisecond?

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Wed May 28 13:20:06 EDT 2014


Let us know how that works on iOS.  That is, whether ‘the long seconds’ has the resolution you want and whether 'wait 0.00025 seconds' works.

Another thing to try is ‘send … in 0.00025 seconds’ if the above does not work.  Send actually has a lower overhead than you might expect, well, less than I expected.  

Dar


On May 28, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Rick Harrison <harrison at all-auctions.com> wrote:

> Hi Dar,
> 
> Sorry, I should have told you it is for iOS.
> 
> The good news is that ’the long seconds' is supposed to work for iOS
> according to the documentation.  I’ll give it a try.
> 
> I’ll look for darzTimer plugin too at your link.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> On May 28, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
>> On OS X, you can use ‘the long seconds’.  
>> 
>> On Windows and with a commercial LiveCode, you might be able to use darzTimer plugin to help with measuring looping delays.
>> 
>> I haven’t looked at that in years.  Find it here:
>> http://pages.swcp.com/dsc/revstacks.html
>> 
>> It is a plugin stack with an embedded external.  
>> 
>> Unfortunately, it is locked and I will have to go and unzip some files in some old CDs to find an unlocked version.  
>> 
>> Another approach for Windows is to calibrate your delay command by calling it a thousand times at the start.  You might even thousand, tweak, thousand, tweak.  It might cost a half second at a slash screen, though.  That should work for OS X, too.
>> 
>> Dar Scott
>> Externals and Libraries
>> 
>> On May 28, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Rick Harrison <harrison at all-auctions.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> I’m trying to speed up my application by reducing my wait times.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, the wait command itself says that the minimum
>>> wait time is 1 millisecond.
>>> 
>>> I want to reduce my wait times to .5 or .25 milliseconds.
>>> 
>>> I’m thinking perhaps a loop to wait just a few cpu cycles.
>>> 
>>> It would be best if I could start and stop a timer which would
>>> tell me exactly how much time has passed executing my loop.
>>> 
>>> Ideas?  Suggestions?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Rick
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