How to make code stall or sleep

[Anthony Smith]

I have a metod that when called the first line of code I would like to write is to have the method stall for 10 miliseconds. How can I do this? This is not a thread.

I would just write a loop to stall, but it would finish at different times depending on what CPU is it is executed on.

[Joel McNary]

Even though it is not a separate thread, it still is running within the main thread. You can do:

Thread.sleep(10);

to get the effect you want.

[Tom Billings]

And to continue Joel's reply there's no way to guarantee a 10 ms sleep since it would mean that you're having exclusive control of the processor. Which Java, nor the OS would allow.

[Tom Billings]

Sleeping exactly 10 ms, that is.

[Layne Lund]

Originally posted by Anthony Smith:
I have a metod that when called the first line of code I would like to write is to have the method stall for 10 miliseconds. How can I do this? This is not a thread.

I would just write a loop to stall, but it would finish at different times depending on what CPU is it is executed on.

Every program IS a thread. That is every program has at least ONE thread. So you can still use the methods from the Thread class as illustrated above.

Layne