[erlang-questions] Sending message at a specific and accurate time

[Joe Armstrong]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:
>> L = fun Loop() -> receive after 1 ->  Loop()  end end.
>> spawn_link(L).

Busy sleep :-) < I thought busy waiting was frowned upon>

Actually after 10 works as well.

So a work-around is to set the timer 10 ms *before* I want and run a busy sleep
loop -

So I keep having to thumping the damn thing to make it doesn't fall asleep.

I've only tested on an unloaded system - perhaps if the system was loaded
the timings would be better?

Thanks for the tip.

/Joe

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> That is a process doing minimal sleep, but still sleeps ( I think )
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> Adding this little ”helper” process changes the timing on my mac to the better.
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> From 3-4 ms latency to to around 1 or less.
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> Power cable did not affect the latency for me either.
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> /Tony
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>> On 22 feb 2016, at 13:19, Jesper Louis Andersen <jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Ola Bäckström <Ola.Backstrom@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Do you get different result with power cable plugged in compared to not plugged in?
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>> I controlled for that by trying it with and without the cable plugged. It isn't affecting the latencies.
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>> Any kind of dynamic timing system shouldn't really affect this either. If anything it ought to improve the precision.
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>> J.
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