Better way to script the Â«delayÂ» command ...

rlesperance · May 19, 2009, 12:31am

-- Sleep # seconds is the best way to "wait" without unneccessarily taxing the CPU
-- Delay, believe it or not, eats CPU.
tell me to do shell script "/bin/sleep 5"

Hi,

Can somebody tell me if this script is really a better way to script a delay in a script ?

Regards.

Robert

StefanK · May 19, 2009, 7:24am

Hi Robert,

/bin/sleep is indeed the best way to delay a script, but forget the useless tell me

Nigel_Garvey · May 19, 2009, 10:28am

Don’t forget though that a ‘/bin/sleep’ delay will be a few milliseconds longer than a ‘delay’ delay, depending on the speed of your processor.

rlesperance · May 19, 2009, 11:53am

Hi Stefank and Nigel,

Thank you both … Regards.

Robert

rlesperance · May 20, 2009, 3:29pm

Should I do that for any delay, even a short one ?

CalvinFold · May 20, 2009, 5:44pm

Proof that it is possible to be more efficient at waiting…and sleeping.

Go figure…:lol:

Now if only the RealLife operating system supported this feature…:rolleyes: