Re: Sleep miliseconds

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 16/08/2011 10.54, Lorenzo Donati wrote:

Enrico and Sean: thanks for the reply.

I already knew some of those info, anyway. Sorry, probably I wasn't 
clear enough: my curiosity wasn't for the idiosyncrasies in themselves, 
but for a possible hardware-related reason beneath (that's why I marked 
OT the message).

To be clearer: I'd like to know (whether or not an OS chooses to provide 
an high resolution sleep function) if the modern PC hardware is capable 
of providing such a timing resolution to the upper sw layer by default 
(using some standard BIOS call or standard I/O port or whatever), or if 
it depends on some peculiar hw characteristic such as CPU setup, chipset 
or similar things.

TIA
-- Lorenzo