[gambit-list] Problem in thread-sleep! may be a poor implementation of the select system call

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Jan 28 14:24:54 EST 2009


On 28-Jan-09, at 2:03 PM, vasil wrote:

> After update scheme code displays n from 9040 to 9192.

Great!  The discrepancy with the ideal result of 10000 is due to the  
interpretation overhead for the code executed between successive calls  
to thread-sleep! (you will probably get slightly higher numbers if you  
compile the code).  So the resolution is much improved.

Marc




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