Re: Short sleeps.

[John <jemhoff@student.umass.edu>]

Awwww, come on, stay with the paperclip.  I'm sure whatever solution you
might find won't be as hardcore as that one :)

-- John

> 
> In a past project (don't ask!) I got fast sleep times by connecting
> RxD to TxD on the serial port with a bent paperclip and writing a single
> byte at 9600 baud...immediately reading it back again using 'select()'.
> That would provide about a millisecond of delay without doing a busy/wait,
> which is perfect!
> 
> I'm looking for something creative - but without the paperclip!
> 
> Any ideas?  (Yeah - I know "Buy an Alpha" :-)
> 
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