calling functions at the same time

[Terry Reedy]

"Bart Nessux" <bart_nessux at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c6unuq$d0f$1 at solaris.cc.vt.edu...
> I need to ping 4 hosts at exactly the same time from the  same machine (I
> plan to timestamp the pings) to test and measure network conditions over
> different routes to different hosts. Putting all the ping hosts in a list
> and looping through it is not a fair or balanced way to do this because
of
> the time differences.

If you do 24 trials, one for each permutation, the result would be about as
fair and balanced as you can get.

Terry J. Reedy