Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 12:44:23 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 12:38:17, Steven Edwards wrote: >A better approach is to use a separate thread to wait efficiently for a constant >time interval. It will make the program less portable. For example, I have a DOS version of my engine. I don't know of any POSIX thread library for this. A polling program can be very portable. Of course, one needs a few lines of system specific code (at least in C), to see whether input is available. But that is just about all. All the core stuff of the engine will need no changes. I also calculate the nodes between time checks dynamically. In profile runs, it doesn't show up anywhere near the top - so basically no time is lost. Regards, Dieter
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