How to execute game logic every 100ms but render as fast as possible?

Question

I have created a simple snake clone and would like to execute game logic every 100ms while rendering as fast as possible. How can I achieve this when the program might run with very different frame rates?

For example when compiling the code to a native executable I have over 1000 where I can just wait until 100ms are passed before executing the next logic step. But when compiling to asm.js I get frame rates of about 20 which means the period between two logic steps could be everything from 100ms to 149ms which would result in visible stutter (one movement is faster than another).

Answer 1

This is some basic example of calculation of the framerate.
I'm assuming that there's a function called current_milliseconds() that returns the number of milliseconds from the beginning of the program.

/* Before the loop */
int time = current_milliseconds(); // Setting up the Timer
int FPS = 60;

/* Inside the loop (at the bottom) */
int frame_ms = current_milliseconds() - time; // Milliseconds the frame took to render
// Calculating the number of frames the machine could render in 1 second at that speed
FPS = 1000.0 / (frame_ms <= 0 ? 1 : frame_ms);
time = current_milliseconds();

My advice from personal experience: do NOT limit framerate manually. It's better for you to check the time of rendering of each frame and adjust your game logic accordingly.
Another solution is to use vSync to get a constant framerate.