Let’s say I want to “pause” a thread so that other threads can run more efficiently. What is the minimum sleeping period before blocking becomes pointless (or almost pointless)?
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Let’s say I want to “pause” a thread so that other threads can run more efficiently. What is the minimum sleeping period before blocking becomes pointless (or almost pointless)?
I would expect that any amount of sleeping would at least be the functional equivalent of calling
yield()so there is never a point where it is “pointless.” There is a definitely a point where a small values are essentially indistinguishable because the overhead of waiting for the Operating System to get back around to your thread is longer than a small sleep time. That probably occurs somewhere in the 5-10 range, but of course it will be OS specific.