How to do nothing efficently

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From: Simon Waters
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:00

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Excuse a basic Java question, but how does a thread do nothing for a given
time efficiently.

All the example pause routines I've seen loop until the system clock has
exceeded a certain value.

I doubt this is very efficient. Is there something I am missing ?

Appreciate some OS'es probably do not have good mechanisms for doing this,
but surely there should be a standard API call so that the OSes that do can
take advantage of it.....

  Any good pointers thread handling in JAVA appreciated as well.

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