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uSleep on windows (win32)

I am facing a terrible issue regarding timing on windows.

Googling arround, I've found those infos:

Using QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency APIs in Dev-C++
(http://yeohhs.blogspot.com/2005/08/using-queryperformancecounter-and_13.html)
QueryPerformanceCounter() vs. GetTickCount()
http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/delphi_windows_API/f345.shtml
How to time a block of code
http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/delphi/howto_time_code.htm
And Results of some quick research on timing in Win32

With that I'm trying to write something like a uSleep function for windows:


#include<windows.h>

void uSleep(int waitTime){
__int64 time1 = 0, time2 = 0, sysFreq = 0;

QueryPerformanceCounter((LARGE_INTEGER *)&time1);
QueryPerformanceFrequency((LARGE_INTEGER *)&freq);
do{
QueryPerformanceCounter((LARGE_INTEGER *)&time2);

//  }while((((time2-time1)*1.0)/sysFreq)<waitTime);
  }while( (time2-time1) <waitTime);
}

There is also already a nanosleep at:
and a usleep at MKSToolkit at:
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