How to wait

[Alan T]

How do I tell my application to wait for 2 seconds?

[nick.fletcher]

If you just want your application to pause for two seconds you can use

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);

This will cause the current thread to wait for 2 seconds before
resuming where it left off

On Nov 24, 4:03 pm, "Alan T" <[e-mail]:

How do I tell my application to wait for 2 seconds?

[Michael Nemtsev]

Just add to others - SpinWait to wait without relinquishing the CPU

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"Alan T" wrote:

How do I tell my application to wait for 2 seconds?

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

"Michael Nemtsev" <ne*****@msn.comwrote in message
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Just add to others - SpinWait to wait without relinquishing the CPU

EEK, spin for 2 seconds! You should never do that. First off, you should never spin on a
mono cpu box, second you should never spin for anything longer than the time taken by a
transition into the kernel and back.

Willy.

[nick.fletcher]

I completely agree but lacking any other further information about
exactly what the application does and the context of the wait...

On Nov 25, 2:47 am, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

"Michael Nemtsev" <[e-mail] in messagenews:60**********************************@m icrosoft.com...Just add to others - SpinWait to wait without relinquishing the CPUEEK, spin for 2 seconds! You should never do that. First off, you should never spin on a
mono cpu box, second you should never spin for anything longer than the time taken by a
transition into the kernel and back.

Willy.

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

<ni***********@iinet.net.auwrote in message
news:11*********************@l12g2000cwl.googlegro ups.com...

>I completely agree but lacking any other further information about
exactly what the application does and the context of the wait...

Hmm... not sure what you mean here, you know the difference between a Sleep and a SpinWait
do you?
You should never call SpinWait for as long as 2 seconds whatever the context.

Willy.

[nick.fletcher]

Sorry Willy - I had misread your post. But I dont recall saying you
should spinwait for 2 seconds? Instead of picking up on my mistakes
maybe you could use your time more productively to give an answer to
Alans initial question

For the benifit of anyone else -
Sleep - will relinquish control of the thread for the number of
milliseconds denoted by the parameter -technicaly it is removed from
consideration by the thread scheduler for that length of time
SpinWait - will effectively lock the current thread into a tight loop
for a specified number of itterations. Generally not recommended and is
only genuinely useful in a small number situations

:-)
Nick

On Nov 27, 2:38 am, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

<[e-mail] in messagenews:11*********************@l12g2000cwl.go oglegroups.com...

I completely agree but lacking any other further information about
exactly what the application does and the context of the wait...Hmm... not sure what you mean here, you know the difference between a Sleep and a SpinWait

do you?
You should never call SpinWait for as long as 2 seconds whatever the context.

Willy.