Re: Sleep miliseconds

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 15/08/2011 15.25, Igor Medeiros wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> There is a library that provides a sleep function in milliseconds? I
> tried using the posix.sleep() function but it only wait seconds instead
> miliseconds.
>
> Thanks.

Warning: slighlty OT question.

Out of curiosity, and relating to modern PC architectures, are there 
hardware limits to the availability of an high resolution timer at 
software level, or all this diversity is just a problem of operating 
system or API idiosyncrasies?

In other words: have OSs a real problem in providing an high resolution 
(milli/micro/nano second) sleep function because of hardware lacking the 
required functionality?

TIA
-- Lorenzo