[java] Pausing Execution?!

Why don't you want to use the sleep method? It takes almost no cpu (1-2% on my 1.33GHz) to check it every 33ms...

I don't know of any other method, but let me assure you that sleeping is not a resource hog.

Indeed! Thanks for the input! (I was raised on 486's and the like, so it's been engraved in my head to be as efficient as possible :()

I've also been wondering - Has Java 1.5 fixed the bit about currentTimeMillis() only updating every ~30 ms??

Java 1.5 has a function that returns ns (nanoseconds) which works (as far as I know) natively on all platforms. Theis means that with a new acurate timer, that sleep is even more acurate.

The reason in the past that it would only sleep 50ms was because in win9* the timer used by java would only allow it to go as low as 50 ms. The same piece of code running on OSX or WinXP would go all the way down to somewhere around 5ms. Anywhere below 5ms you don't really need to be sleeping though... [smile]

So to answer your question, yes. It has been fixed in 1.5, and even in 1.4.2 to certain platforms.

Ah!

Thanks bunches for the help H_o_p_s!

I sure appreciate it! :D

You could always set up a few different threads and arrange for them to wait/notify each other as needed, but it's tricky to get right.