Does this code work assuming a 1 ms tick?
void OneSecondPause() {
/* Wait 1000 milliseconds. */
for ( i=0; i < 1000; i++ ) delay(1);
}
Unfortunately, no, this won't return after one second on IBM PC hardware. It'll likely wait for three seconds. In fact, when you call any function based on the nanosleep() or select() functions, with an argument of n milliseconds, it actually takes anywhere from n to infinity milliseconds. But more than likely, this example will take three seconds.
So why exactly does this function take three seconds?