Milliseconds Resolution

[Kenneth Brody]

On 9/6/2016 11:34 AM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
> FilePro must have a built in function which, at least counts
> milliseconds.  The sleep function uses milliseconds - sleep(n) where n is
> in milliseconds.
>
> Now this does not mean that filePro can read the current time down to
> milliseconds.

Do you think that filePro implements sleep with a busy-loop?  (ie: 
constantly reading the time, seeing if X milliseconds as passed.)

There are system API calls that allow filePro to tell the O/S "sleep for 
this many milliseconds".

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Kenneth Brody