Re: How to do nothing efficently

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From: Tad Frysinger
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:00

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In article <887795101.24328.0.nnrp-09.c1ed6dcb@news.demon.co.uk>, 
Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk says...
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Put your thread to .sleep()

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