[Openmcl-devel] timer in openmcl

[Osei Poku]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Dan Corkill wrote:

>
>>>> Is there a way to create and schedule a timer in openmcl similar to
>>>> make/schedule/unschedule-timer in sbcl or lispworks?
>>> You can use NSTimer:
>>
>> I realized you're on Linux, so this probably won't work for you -  
>> sorry.
>
> GBBopen's Portable Threads interface package provides both scheduled
> functions and periodic functions (see
> http://gbbopen.org/hyperdoc/ref-portable-thread-entities.html).  The
> Portable Threads package can be used stand-alone (without the rest of
> GBBopen).
>
This looks promising.  I'll try it out.  Thanks.