From: Mike Barsalou <barjunk@...>
Date: 2009-09-09T13:05:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Time based loop limiting

On Sep 8, 2:14 pm, Bertram Scharpf <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 09. Sep 2009, 01:38:33 +0900 schrieb Michael Tomer:
>
> > I'm trying to write a loop that will only run a certain number of times
> > per second.
>
> The proper way to do this is to call the setitimer(2) function
> that will send SIGALRM periodically to the process. It has been
> discussed a long time ago:
>
>  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/130989
>
> Still I cannot find a setitimer mapping in the Ruby interpreter.
> So I wrote my own:
>
>  http://bertram-scharpf.homelinux.com:8808/doc_root/itimer-1.0/rdoc/in...
>
> Bertram
>
> --
> Bertram Scharpf
> Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germanyhttp://www.bertram-scharpf.de


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