If you’re just looking for extremely precise measurements of elapsed time, use System.nanoTime(). System.currentTimeMillis() will give you the most accurate possible elapsed time in milliseconds since the epoch, but System.nanoTime() gives you a nanosecond-precise time, relative to some arbitrary point. From the Java Documentation: public static long nanoTime() Returns the current value of the most … Read more
If your program doesn’t have a event loop already, use the sched module, which implements a general purpose event scheduler. import sched, time s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep) def do_something(sc): print(“Doing stuff…”) # do your stuff sc.enter(60, 1, do_something, (sc,)) s.enter(60, 1, do_something, (s,)) s.run() If you’re already using an event loop library like asyncio, trio, … Read more
No, it’s not. Use the Stopwatch (in System.Diagnostics) Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew(); PerformWork(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine(“Time taken: {0}ms”, sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds); Stopwatch automatically checks for the existence of high-precision timers. It is worth mentioning that DateTime.Now often is quite a bit slower than DateTime.UtcNow due to the work that has to be done with timezones, DST and such. … Read more
You don’t need jquery for this, in plain javascript, the following will work! var intervalId = window.setInterval(function(){ /// call your function here }, 5000); To stop the loop you can use clearInterval(intervalId)
This article offers a fairly comprehensive explanation: “Comparing the Timer Classes in the .NET Framework Class Library” – also available as a .chm file The specific difference appears to be that System.Timers.Timer is geared towards multithreaded applications and is therefore thread-safe via its SynchronizationObject property, whereas System.Threading.Timer is ironically not thread-safe out-of-the-box. I don’t believe … Read more
Stopwatch is designed for this purpose and is one of the best ways to measure time execution in .NET. var watch = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew(); // the code that you want to measure comes here watch.Stop(); var elapsedMs = watch.ElapsedMilliseconds; Do not use DateTime to measure time execution in .NET. UPDATE: As pointed out by @series0ne in … Read more
Use time.sleep() from time import sleep sleep(0.05)