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Is there any really good reason why sleep() doesn't work for
microseconds? I mean, if I can do this:
sub sleep {
my($time) = shift;
if( /^[+-]?\d+$/ ) {
sleep($time);
}
else {
select(undef, undef, undef, $time);
}
}
Why can't Perl? Smells like a C holdover to me.
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Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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