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

Suppose a producer thread is filling a work buffer, say a linked list. The buffer can be sized so it does not empty in less than a sleep-wake period, and the cpu can support the consumer threads that empty the buffer while you sleep. You might even up the buffer size until it is not empty when you wake. Now, how much sleep is a business decision, as there is switching overhead. Lots of hints on figuring that in the above!

Of course, there are several Blocking Concurrent Classes but generally their capacity is fixed. Blocking is no less expensive a thread suspend, I have to believe.