sleep is a system call that suspends a process or thread for a specified amount of time
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What is the JavaScript version of sleep()?
Is there a better way to engineer a sleep in JavaScript than the following pausecomp function (taken from here)?
function pausecomp(millis)
{
var date = new Date();
var curDate = null;
do { curDate = new Date(); }
while(curDate-date…
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How do I make a time delay?
How do I put a time delay in a Python script?
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Difference between "wait()" vs "sleep()" in Java
What is the difference between a wait() and sleep() in Threads?
Is my understanding that a wait()-ing Thread is still in running mode and uses CPU cycles but a sleep()-ing does not consume any CPU cycles correct?
Why do we have both wait() and…
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Sleep for milliseconds
I know the POSIX sleep(x) function makes the program sleep for x seconds. Is there a function to make the program sleep for x milliseconds in C++?
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How do I get my program to sleep for 50 milliseconds?
How do I get my Python program to sleep for 50 milliseconds?
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How do I make a delay in Java?
I am trying to do something in Java and I need something to wait / delay for an amount of seconds in a while loop.
while (true) {
if (i == 3) {
i = 0;
}
ceva[i].setSelected(true);
// I need to wait here
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How do I add a delay in a JavaScript loop?
I would like to add a delay/sleep inside a while loop:
I tried it like this:
alert('hi');
for(var start = 1; start < 10; start++) {
setTimeout(function () {
alert('hello');
}, 3000);
}
Only the first scenario is true: after showing…
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Tell Ruby Program to Wait some amount of time
How do you tell a Ruby program to wait an arbitrary amount of time before moving on to the next line of code?
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time.sleep -- sleeps thread or process?
In Python for *nix, does time.sleep() block the thread or the process?
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Sleep Command in T-SQL?
Is there to way write a T-SQL command to just make it sleep for a period of time? I am writing a web service asynchronously and I want to be able to run some tests to see if the asynchronous pattern is really going to make it more scalable. In…
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JavaScript sleep/wait before continuing
I have a JavaScript code that I need to add a sleep/wait function to. The code I am running is already in a function, eg:
function myFunction(time)
{
alert('time starts now');
//code to make the program wait before continuing
alert('time…
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Difference between wait and sleep
What is difference between wait and sleep?
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I get exception when using Thread.sleep(x) or wait()
I have tried to delay - or put to sleep - my Java program, but an error occurs.
I'm unable to use Thread.sleep(x) or wait(). The same error message appears:
unreported exception java.lang.InterruptedException; must be caught or declared to be…
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How to implement sleep function in TypeScript?
I'm developing a website in Angular 2 using TypeScript and I was wondering if there was a way to implement thread.sleep(ms) functionality.
My use case is to redirect the users after submitting a form after a few seconds which is very easy in…
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Bash: infinite sleep (infinite blocking)
I use startx to start X which will evaluate my .xinitrc. In my .xinitrc I start my window manager using /usr/bin/mywm. Now, if I kill my WM (in order to f.e. test some other WM), X will terminate too because the .xinitrc script reached EOF.
So I…
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