What is the best way to exit out of a loop after an elapsed time of 30ms in C++

Question

What is the best way to exit out of a loop as close to 30ms as possible in C++. Polling boost:microsec_clock ? Polling QTime ? Something else?

Something like:

Answer 1

The code snippet example in this link pretty much does what you want:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/clock/

Adapted from their example:

void runwait ( int seconds )
{
   clock_t endwait;
   endwait = clock () + seconds * CLOCKS_PER_SEC ;
   while (clock() < endwait)
   {
      /* Do stuff while waiting */
   }
}