How to suspend a java thread for a small period of time, like 100 nanoseconds?

Question

I know Thread.sleep() can make a java thread suspend for a while, like certain milliseconds and certain nanoseconds. But the problem is the invocation of th

Answer 1

Do a busy wait , ( ie have a while loop cycle through so many numbers doing nothing ). A the start of your program you can time the amount of time it took it execute this busy wait and increase or decrease it to get to 5 nano seconds

I have found object.wait gets hairy with this frequency also make note that a busy wait solution would most likely be machine dependent Hence why you should have a calibration step at the start of your program