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abstract barn Feb 14, 2024, 5:55 PM

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Is is possible to sleep a thread in such a way that's not affected by the thread being interrupted? I know when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock it's not bothered by interruptions so is there such a thing without having to sit on some objects monitor?

lapis basinBOT Feb 14, 2024, 5:55 PM

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wanton mantle Feb 14, 2024, 6:05 PM

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I guess you can check whether you slept long enough and if not, sleep what's left

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Couldn't you simply opt out of interrupting?

abstract barn Feb 14, 2024, 6:05 PM

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I could opt out of interrupting but that would complicate things a lot

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and the point isn't to sleep for some particular time period

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the point is to sleep for any time at all because otherwise my cpu usage goes to 50%

wanton mantle Feb 14, 2024, 6:07 PM

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Who smells X Y problem?

abstract barn Feb 14, 2024, 6:09 PM

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That could very well be the case but I would rather hold off on rewriting a bunch of stuff until after I find out whether it's at all possible

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although it sounds like it probably isn't

unique anvil Feb 14, 2024, 6:15 PM

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wanton mantle Who smells X Y problem?

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yeah, definitely

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Please be more specific

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What exactly are you trying to achieve?

abstract barn Feb 14, 2024, 6:19 PM

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Well I am making something like a video player and you know these cool sliders the video players have where you drag them and go around the video?

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well I need that skipping around the video to be as interactive as possible so I need to process the most recent slider move but when the slider handle is just taken and dragged across that equals a bunch of these skip requests and the way I deal with this is sleep the thread that handles the skipping for a bit at the beginning of the method and if another skip request comes I interrupt that sleeping and start processing the new one

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the problem is when the slider is getting dragged across the interrupt requests come to fast and the thread is basically active 100% of the time

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