Re: delay in perlscripts?

[Mike Guidero <kymermosst@penguinpowered.com>]

Decklin Foster wrote:
> Now, a question for the rest of the group. What do we do when sleep()
> is replaced by sub_which_performs_several_seconds_of_computation()?

Exacly the same thing.  The concept here is that X-Chat is running, or the
embedded perl interpreter is running, but not both at the same time.

> I sort of suspect that IRC::blah is just pushing commands onto a queue
> that gets flushed whenever the code dips back into XChat. But I don't
> know the internals.

That's the idea behind it... the best way to get a correct delay is by doing
this:  (pseudo code follows)

dowhatever {
  pre-delay-stuff
  IRC::add_timeout_handler(delay,"post-delay-routine")
}
post-delay-routine {
  post-delay-stuff
}

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