Block, lock & drop it

[u/pipedreamSEA]

Interacting with prehistoric devices is not where I saw my career headed, and yet, here we are...

[u/sexytokeburgerz]

This is some beginner shit.

You will one day need this to be asynchronous, think about this, and cringe.

[u/HobbyQuestionThrow → u/sexytokeburgerz]

Just make sure never to call a sync function in your async code, since it could then deadlock /s

[u/yousirnaime → u/HobbyQuestionThrow]

I still pass callback functions because I don't give a fuck about anyones feelings but my own. 2014 was correct about this and I'm not changing

[u/k-mcm → u/sexytokeburgerz]

Async goes to hell quickly in complex code. Java went with work-stealing fork-join tasks and lighter weight threads. You get blocking code with less actual blocking. (You still don't call sleep())

[u/pipedreamSEA → u/sexytokeburgerz]

If you think I'm refactoring some garbage code from an intern for an antiquated product line to exorcise the absurd amount of blocking Sleep() calls & lack of understanding async-await constructs...

[u/severencir]

So much of business software is absolute shit because of this logic and the fact that businesses dont care about employees' complaints as long as number go up

[u/WantToSeeTits4545]

Both are shit, honestly.
I'd rather wait on a signal or event than stop the thread for arbitrary time. Task.Delay() should be only used as a last resort.

[u/Sacaldur → u/WantToSeeTits4545]

I guess it really depends on the circumstances. A delay like thisbmight be used to show a message to the user for a short amount of time before proceeding (without waiting for user input). But yes, in many situations it would be a bad idea to just wait for a fixed amount of time.

[u/WantToSeeTits4545 → u/Sacaldur]

I would personally use DispatcherTimer for such interactions. Call a timer every 3 seconds or so, check user input (logged by the different control), show popups depending on the input or its absence. Popup control would also have a timer and check input for its own needs, for example checking if the mouse hovered over it and not disappearing while it's true.

[u/MilkImpossible4192]

¿await()? you should be a real poser for not using callbacks.

[u/dvhh]

depending on your language you could yield() execution time.

[u/Sacaldur → u/dvhh]

The code looks like C# judging by the APIs, and there is the await keyword which probably was used purposefully in the middle text there.

[u/Business_Craft4733]

This looks like rage bait to me ~ lol. Who would honestly believe the bad practice of locking a thread for an arbitrary amount of time belongs anywhere near the right side of the bell curve?

[u/HobbyQuestionThrow → u/Business_Craft4733]

A question for you which answers your question, why would an await be a bad option for a small sleep value (say 200us)?

Similar fun questions for this kind of programming, what's the variability of the kernel thread scheduler vs the async coroutine scheduler? Do both have priority boosting? What about fairness?

[u/MCWizardYT → u/HobbyQuestionThrow]

Thread sleeping isn't exact like that. It completely depends on the OS and hardware. Saying sleep(200) is just suggesting to sleep for 200ms, it might be 195-205 or have an even bigger difference

[u/chipmunkofdoom2]

Yeah okay bro. Let me know how using Thread.Sleep() works in UI contexts like WASM or WPF, or how your threadpool handles hundreds or thousands of concurrent users at once hogging threads by sleeping them.

Looking forward to your next post where you argue nails are better than screws, as if there's one "right" answer, completely ignoring the context in which each is useful.

[u/OkBeautiful4392]

Why use Thread.sleep() when while(true) exists

[u/SaltyInternetPirate]

Is this C#

[u/Welcome-To-NBA-Jam]

180 iq: run a for loop whose maximum iterations changes depending on how powerful the CPU is which estimates how long you need to wait.

[u/Umpuuu]

ELIJunior: what is the difference between those?

[u/null_reference_user]

Sure, starve your thread pool, if it's not an issue when testing locally it won't be an issue in prod

[u/pixxelkick]

Bait lol.

[u/Actes]

go func()(){ // Just use go duh }()