Re: Stop using "Int" for microsecond delays in "base"

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

On 30 March 2011 19:00, Johan Tibell wrote:

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Yes. Integer is terrible for performance.

But in this case it's unlikely to make a difference because the whole point of threadDelay is to slow the program down, so who cares if we deref one more pointer :-)

Sure. In this particular case. What do we do if the user passes some humongous number to threadDelay? The underlying syscall doesn't support it, so I guess we would have to call that syscall repeatedly.