You’re dealing with sleep times termed in tens of seconds. The possible savings by changing your sleep option here is likely nanoseconds or microseconds. I’d prefer the latter style every time, but if you have the former and it’s going to cost you a lot to change it, “improving performance” isn’t a particularly good justification. … Read more
Use a condition variable. You wait on the condition variable or 5 minutes passing. Remember to check for spurious wakeups. cppreference I cannot find a good stack overflow post on how to use a condition variable in a minute or two of google searching. The tricky part is realizing that the wait can wake up … Read more
The granularity of sleeps is generally bound by the thread scheduler’s interrupt period. In Linux, this interrupt period is generally 1ms in recent kernels. In Windows, the scheduler’s interrupt period is normally around 10 or 15 milliseconds If I have to halt threads for periods less than this, I normally use a busy wait EDIT: … Read more
The call to Thread.Sleep is blocking the UI thread. You need to wait asynchronously. Method 1: use a DispatcherTimer tbkLabel.Text = “two seconds delay”; var timer = new DispatcherTimer { Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2) }; timer.Start(); timer.Tick += (sender, args) => { timer.Stop(); var page = new Page2(); page.Show(); }; Method 2: use Task.Delay tbkLabel.Text = … Read more
Sleep(1) is a documented way in Windows to yield the processor and allow other threads to run. You can find this code in the Reference Source with comments: // Our memory model guarantee if we pick up the change in bucket from another processor, // we will see the ‘isWriterProgress’ flag to be true or … Read more
If you want to pause then use java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit: TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1); To sleep for one second or TimeUnit.MINUTES.sleep(1); To sleep for a minute. As this is a loop, this presents an inherent problem – drift. Every time you run code and then sleep you will be drifting a little bit from running, say, every second. If this … Read more