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Hello everyone, is there any way to relieve cpu usage using any parameter below 10 milliseconds?

I would like to use a sleep(5) for example, I know that sleep() is not possible because the use of 1 to 9 will be automatically standardized for 10 milliseconds. is there an alternative?

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If you can provide enough detail on what exactly you would like to do and provide a script (working or not) that you have tried, maybe someone can suggest a better way to do what you need to do without sleeps.

To me, it sounds like you might be juicing the cpu with your script, and it may be possible to do it a more efficient way, depending on what you want/need to do.

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What else are you doing in the loop that you need that short of a delay for?

 

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mutleey,

See here:

But like the others, I would question quite why you need to loop at anything faster than 10ms given the overall "speed" of AutoIt!

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What happens is that I am doing an automation that requires a precision because it uses as an input an infrared receiver, the reading is very fast and if I use a looping check loop with a time of 10 ms which is the minimum that sleep() Sometimes (rare) the script loses its input, I'll give an example of how perfect it would be ..

 

While True
    ; input verification... perfect 0% error, but the use of cpu reaches 50%
WEnd

While True
    ; input verification... 0% cpu usage, but 10% chance of giving error
    Sleep(10)
WEnd


so I wanted a "pause" of 5 or 3 ms in the looping

Melba23 I already did some tests with this UDF, but the results were not good.

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mutleey,

Then it might have been a good idea to mention it so that I did not waste my time searching it out for you. <click>

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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