Recall a function every x milliseconds on Tkinter (Pygame's set_timer equivalent)

Question

I am developping a little application for plotting a network graph, showing "how fast your ping is". Here is the related code review post.

Basically, I have a thread managing a canvas. This thread targets to the following method (simplified):

def update(self):
    # Basically draw a vertical line on the right of the canvas
    self.draw_line(tag="spike")

    # Move all lines by -1 px and delete the lines outside the canvas
    # This can be somewhat long.
    lines = list(self.canvas.find_withtag("spike"))
    while len(lines) > self.WIDTH:
        self.canvas.delete(lines.pop(0))
    for l in lines:
        x0, y0, x1, y1 = self.canvas.coords(l)
        self.canvas.coords(l, x0 - 1, y0, x1 - 1, y1)

    # Recall in 10ms
    if self.alive:
        self.root.after(10, self.update)

So as you might think, this function is a bit slow on large canvas (for example 800x600). Because it uses a recall method after its computation, I have a recall time of computation_time + 10ms. I would like to have a recall time of exactly 10ms.

As I saw on a SO post about PyGame the method pygame.time.set_timer() does this kind of thing on PyGame. I would like to know if there is an equivalent for Tkinter.

Rergards,