From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-09-09T16:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Time based loop limiting

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 09. Sep 2009, 13:05:27 +0900 schrieb Mike Barsalou:
> On Sep 8, 2:14 pm, Bertram Scharpf <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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...
> 
> How would one make use of this?

Argh. I wonder how that could happen. The link is of course:
  
  http://bertram-scharpf.homelinux.com:8808/doc_root/itimer-1.0/rdoc/index.html

Install the gem. You can also use this gem source:

  http://gems.bertram-scharpf.de

Then (untested)

  require "itimer"
  trap "SIGALRM" do puts Time.now end
  Process.setitimer 2

This puts out the time every two seconds.

Bertram


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