one could if one could delay his loops for just an msec (enough to keep to keep nowadays CPUs stress-free, on the other side short enough to be acceptable)

Forget about udf delays as they are a CPU time killer , BUT :

Ruud promised to enable the good old SLEEP command to accept miliseconds ...

here is an excerpt from one of his last mails (hope you don't mind Ruud ?)

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As for delay(): this is on the list for the next update after 4.02 (if all goes well, Sleep should be able to accept a floating point number, allowing you guys to sleep (your scripts ;-) for as little as a millisecond... ;-)

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J.

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