[Gllug] Imposing a delay in a pipeline

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 13 Apr 2010, - Tethys wrote:
>The data is in the form of lines of ASCII text. At busy times, we're
>talking about thousands of lines per second. The incoming data is
>fairly continuous, but I might be able to tolerate quantizing the data
>for output so we output a bunch of lines once per second, for example.

Perl? slurp in some <> with non-blocking IO, usleep (Time::HiRes) 1
second, print the stuff from n seconds ago, rinse and repeat. If you
like you could make that finer resolution than 1 second easily.

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