On that note, however, if you're writing a Pd extern it's probably better to use a clock_delay() callback; this way, teh rest of Pd won't hang while you wait.
except in the case where the extern is threaded like sonogram~ or cooled~ which was the starting point for all this thread ( without nanosleeps !! )
hem, well, very interesting all of these but i'm rather interested in the status of these objects for Windows ??
i'll set a link to them when they exist.
cheers,
yves