How can this program run faster on my Atom than on my i7?

[JRV]

I found the solution to my problem.
This better_sleep.c function that I found makes it run at the speed I Want:

/***********************************
 better_sleep.c
***********************************/
#include <errno.h>
#include <time.h>
int better_sleep (double sleep_time)
{
  struct timespec tv;
  /* Construct the timespec from the number of whole seconds... */
  tv.tv_sec = (time_t) sleep_time;
  /* ... and the remainder in nanoseconds. */
  tv.tv_nsec = (long) ((sleep_time - tv.tv_sec) * 1e+9);
  while (1)  
  {
    /* Sleep for the time specified in tv. If interrupted by a
    signal, place the remaining time left to sleep back into tv. */
    int rval = nanosleep (&tv, &tv);
    if (rval == 0)
    /* Completed the entire sleep time; all done. */
    return 0;
    else if (errno == EINTR)
    /* Interrupted by a signal. Try again. */
    continue;
    else
    /* Some other error; bail out. */
    return rval;
  }
return 0;
}

Thread marked solved, thanks to all.

[ofnuts]

Can we politely make you notice that this is just a wrapper over the nanosleep() function that was recommended to you 2 weeks ago? (see post #14)

[JRV]

Can we politely make you notice that this is just a wrapper over the nanosleep() function that was recommended to you 2 weeks ago? (see post #14)

Duly noted.

I am just getting started programming in C again after about 20 years.
I learned C with the Borland Turbo C compiler for DOS.
It had a lot of high level functions I was using, so I am just now finding that I didn't know C as well as I thought I did.

Thank you all for you help, and patience.